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Drawing

Fur Trading Post

Date: 1833
Description: Illustration of the Solomon Juneau fur trading post at Milwaukee in 1833.
Print

Camp at Michipicoton

Date: 1850
Description: View of Michipicoton, Ontario on Lake Superior showing a village with log structures and tents. Fishing nets are drying on poles.
Drawing

Island of St. Ignace

Date: 1850
Description: Pastoral scene depicting a small bay on the Island of St. Ignace in Lake Superior with canoes on the rocky beach, two men conversing on a blanket in the fo...
Print

Railroad Land Sales

Date: 
Description: A colored advertising card that was issued by the Land Department of the Wisconsin Central Railroad in order to promote the sale of railroad-owned land in ...
Postcard

Deleglise Cabin

Date: 1930
Description: The first house in Antigo, the Deleglise cabin, built in 1878. Caption reads: "Deleglise Club, First House in Antigo, Built in 1877, Antigo, Wis." Handwrit...
Print

Grignon Block House

Date: 1850
Description: The Grignon block house, "where the first Mass was said."
Photograph

School House

Date: 1910
Description: Log school house, erected about 1860.
Postcard

Delavan Lake

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards cabins on the shore of Delavan Lake, with three women standing near the base of a pier. Caption reads: "Log Cabin, Delavan Lake, ...
Postcard

The Philosopher Press

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the Philosopher Press.
Book or Pamphlet

Playground of Wisconsin's Northwoods Pamphlet

Date: 1931
Description: Cover of a Wisconsin tourism pamphlet for the 1932 season.
Print

Bagli Log Cabin

Date: 
Description: View of the Bagli log cabin, built in 1844 by Knut Bagli, 1.5 miles south of Utica on the Edgerton Road.
Postcard

Logging Museum

Date: 1920
Description: Logging Museum in Rhinelander. Caption reads: "Museum, Rhinelander, Wis."
Postcard

Milton Log Cabin Behind the Milton House

Date: 1920
Description: A view of the cabin on the property of the Milton House, which was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was buil...
Postcard

Governor Doty's Log Cabin

Date: 1905
Description: Governor Doty's log cabin. Two people are sitting and standing in the front yard.
Postcard

Doty Loggery

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the home of Governor James Duane Doty on Doty's Island, "the loggery." Caption reads: "Grand Loggery--Home of James Doty. Second Territori...
Postcard

Doty Loggery

Date: 1910
Description: Front view of the home of James Duane Doty on Doty's Island, "the loggery," built in 1844. Caption reads: "Neenah, Wis. The 'Loggery."
Postcard

Doty Loggery

Date: 1906
Description: Front view of the home of Janes Duane Doty on Doty's Island, "the loggery." Caption reads: "Neenah, Wis. The 'Loggery', built and occupied by ex-Gov. Doty....
Photograph

Doty Loggery

Date: 1910
Description: Doty's Loggery. Caption printed under image reads: "Governor James Duane Doty, in 1845, built this log house on Doty's Island (Menasha), and resided there ...
Postcard

Doty Loggery

Date: 1905
Description: Doty's Loggery, the home of James Duane Doty. Caption reads: "Governor Doty's Cottage, Neenah, Wis."
Drawing

Fort Winnebago

Date: 1930
Description: A sketch of the surgeon's quarters at Fort Winnebago. Caption reads: "Fort Winnebago Surgeons' Quarter".

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