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Map or Atlas

Menomonee Falls, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye map of Menomonee Falls.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Waukesha

Date: 1880
Description: Bird's-eye map of Waukesha, county seat of Waukesha County.
Photograph

St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church

Date: 1863
Description: Exterior of St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church, with trees and a fence in the foreground.
Photograph

View of Town

Date: 1884
Description: View of buildings in Delafield, with two men and a dog standing near a fence in the foreground.
Photograph

Che-ne-qua Hotel

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of the Che-ne-qua Hotel on Pine Lake.
Postcard

Rest Haven Sanitarium

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the Rest Haven Sanitarium. Caption reads: "Rest Haven Sanitarium, Waukesha, Wis."
Postcard

Resthaven

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of Resthaven, a sanitarium. Caption reads: "Resthaven, Waukesha, Wis."
Photograph

Lindsley House

Date: 1890
Description: Round-framed view of the house in which Rev. A.L. Lindsley and his family lived in 1846. In it were born Julia West, Addison Alexander, and Justus (who die...
Postcard

Cistercian Monastery

Date: 
Description: View up hill towards the Cistercian Monastery. Caption reads: "Cistercian Monastery, Okauchee, Wis."
Postcard

Ice House Bay

Date: 1913
Description: Ice House Bay and the lake. A man and a dog are standing on dock in the foreground, and on the right is a man in rowboat. There is a large building on the...
Photograph

Ski Hill

Date: 02 08 1948
Description: "This ski hill was a popular attraction located near Oconomowoc. Ward Woltman of Oak Grove is on the jump."
Photograph

Ski Jump Competition

Date: 
Description: A man jumps off a ski ramp as many spectators look on.
Print

Ancient Works at Merton

Date: 1851
Description: Map of a portion of Merton including the Bark River, a mill, Fort Hill, and Indian mounds.
Photograph

Old Falls Village

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of Falls Village from the cemetery looking south.
Postcard

Nagawicka Lake

Date: 1916
Description: Elevated view from hill looking towards Nagawicka Lake. There is a road and buildings along the shoreline at the bottom of the hill. There are a number of ...
Photograph

Alfred Lunt and Threshers

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac...
Postcard

Turck-Schottler House at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 1950
Description: Color photographic postcard of the Turck-Schottler house at Old World Wisconsin near Eagle. It is an 1875 German blockbau building tradition that is listed...
Postcard

Pine Lake House

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view of a house from the driveway, which slopes down to the two-story wood frame building. Facing the driveway is an entryway which h...
Photograph

Brumder Summer House

Date: 1895
Description: An elevated view of Pine Lake and the George Brumder summer house, taken from an observation tower built on a hill on the Brumder property. Many young tree...
Photograph

Pine Lake Gardens

Date: 1895
Description: An elevated view, looking east, from the wooden tower on George Brumder's Pine Lake property, showing Pine Lake in the center and Beaver Lake beyond. There...

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