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Drawing

Fur Trading Post

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

Andreas Dahl's Wagon

Date: 1871
Description: Andrew Dahl's wagon is on the side of a two-story log house in Blue Mounds. On one side of the wagon cover is "A.L. Dahl Landscape Photographer." On the ba...
Photograph

Fort Winnebago Surgeon's Quarters Before Restoration

Date: 1919
Description: Fort Winnebago surgeon's quarters before restoration. Plans used in the remodeling of 1834 (furnished by the War department) were employed to determine the...
Photograph

Underside of a Trestle Bridge

Date: 
Description: View through the support structure of a trestle bridge. On the shoreline in the background a woman, girl, and another person are standing around what appea...
Photograph

Tourist Camp - Highway 12

Date: 1931
Description: A view of the Log Cabin Filling Station at a tourist camp. A garage for washing and greasing on the left. Two tall gas pumps. Lamps made of interlaced logs...
Photograph

Large Log Building Partially Covered with Sand Bags

Date: 1918
Description: Exterior view of a log building, with sandbags covering a portion of the roof as well as sandbags supported against the wall by wooden posts. Two Russian c...
Photograph

Observation Tower

Date: 1918
Description: Four men stand outdoors near a log building at the base of a large ladder leading up to an observation tower. The ladder is constructed between the trunks ...
Photograph

Village North of Pinega

Date: 1918
Description: View across what is probably a frozen river covered with snow towards a village surrounded by a fence north of the Pinega settlement in northern Russia.
Photograph

Convoy

Date: 1918
Description: View down snowy street towards a group of people gathered outdoors. Horses with sleighs are parked in front of some of the buildings, which are of log cons...
Photograph

Medicine Lodge at Skunk Hill

Date: 1920
Description: View of a portion of Skunk Hill, with the medicine lodge in the background next to other buildings. The canvas is partially on the lodge.
Photograph

Kugler Homestead

Date: 1914
Description: View across water towards a log cabin and an outbuilding on the homestead of Edwin Kugler between Pine and McFarland Lakes, north of Chicago Bay. There is ...
Photograph

Blacksmith's Shops

Date: 
Description: Stereograph of blacksmith shops at the Florence Mine. One building has vertical siding, the other two are of log construction. One large tree is standing i...
Photograph

Tiroler Standschützen at Rest

Date: 
Description: Soldiers resting in a village in the middle of the mountains on a break from the front.
Postcard

View of Rockfield

Date: 08 12 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "View of Rockfield, Wis." Elevated view of a small town, with buildings, dwellings and a log cabin . Railroad tracks are in the lower ...
Postcard

Michael Ahner Log House

Date: 1957
Description: A log house in the Ozaukee County Pioneer Village. Text on back reads: "Ozaukee County, Pioneer Village, Wisconsin. Typical of the home built by German Imm...
Postcard

Pioneer Village

Date: 1957
Description: A Pioneer Village with timber and masonry structures. Text on back reads: "Ozaukee County, Pioneer Village, Wisconsin. Authentic Buildings and Furnishings....
Postcard

State Forest Reserve

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "State Forest Reserve, Trout Lake, Wis." A two-story log building with a rubble stone foundation. The porch and stairs have ornate pin...
Photograph

Loging [Logging] Canp [Camp] Hayward, Wis

Date: 1910
Description: Slightly elevated view of several wooden structures in winter, with bare trees scattered around them. A group of people are standing outside of the long bu...
Photograph

Settlement Along A Railway with Locomotive

Date: 1900
Description: A camp or settlement located along a railway in Iron County, WI. Residents and a dog are pictured in the foreground, with a locomotive in the background ne...

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