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Photograph

Schoodic Lake

Date: 1981
Description: Canoe and boat docked on Schoodic Lake.
Photograph

Summerfest

Date: 1982
Description: Bird's-eye view of a large crowd of music fans gathered at Summerfest, looking northeast toward the current site of Discovery World. Sailboats are on Lake ...
Photograph

David and Joan Obey

Date: 1988
Description: Congressman David Obey and his wife Joan on Martin Hanson's pontoon. He was a good friend of the Obeys and was inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hal...
Map or Atlas

Stevens Point, Wisconsin, 1986-1987 ; Plover, Wisconsin

Date: 1986
Description: Pictorial map showing businesses with phone numbers, roads, railroads, and parks. Includes text titled: "History of Portage County."
Map or Atlas

Port Washington, Wisconsin

Date: 1989
Description: This pictorial map shows Lake Michigan, businesses with phone numbers, schools, parks, other points of interest, and includes a brief history of the town. ...
Map or Atlas

Map of S.E. Central Wisconsin's Land o' Lakes : Waukesha County's Beautiful Lake Area

Date: 1980
Description: This map shows schools, hotels, stations, roads, railroads, reefs, and public buildings. The upper right corner includes "A Summer and Winter Guide for Spo...
Photograph

Edgar Hornung Trimming a Hedge

Date: 1982
Description: A man, identified as Edgar Hornung, trims a hedge along a chain link fence. He stands on rocks at the top of the steep shoreline with his back to the camer...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - Fish History

Date: 05 07 1988
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capitol Times on May 7, 1988 with Sid's caption: "Fish history begins with hooks made of wood, ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1983
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of three fisherman, Clyde (Bud) Chamberlain with his creel, Stan Hamre, who has fallen backward into the water, and Carl Vo...
Postcard

Fisherman's Wharf; Gills Rock

Date: 1983
Description: Color view of the marina at Gills Rock. Several privately-owned boats are docked. A wooden pier is in the foreground. Caption reads: "Fisherman's Wharf; Gi...
Postcard

Picnic Point

Date: 1980
Description: Aerial shot directly over Picnic Point. Boats are in the lake. Text on reverse reads: "Picnic Point — A peninsula of the University of Wisconsin campus jut...

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