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Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye Map of Green Bay and Fort Howard

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of Green Bay and Fort Howard, Brown Co., depicts street names and street layouts, houses, trees, and the East River. A reference key at the ...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Whitewater

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets.
Photograph

22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers

Date: 09 22 1862
Description: The 22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers under the command of Colonel William L. Utley, crossing the pontoon bridge at Cincinnati.
Photograph

Man Holding Gun

Date: 
Description: Man posed standing with a gun under an overhanging tree near a small wooden dam on a stream.
Magazine or Periodical

The First Louisiana Native Guards

Date: 02 28 1863
Description: The First Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards disembarking at Fort Macomb, Louisiana. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally...
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Travel Poster: In Old Kentucky

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Kentucky and the Pennsylvania Railroad through an artist's depiction of two men dressed in buckskin, wearing raccoon hats ...
Photograph

Glass Bayou — Logan's Division Coming Into Action

Date: 1880
Description: A scene from a panoramic painting of Grant's assault on Vicksburg.
Photograph

Olive Brooks, Division Engineer in Panama

Date: 1942
Description: Olive Brooks, Army Division Engineer Public Relations with her .45 on the "Dolphin", Chucunaque River, Panama. She is pointing her gun out towards the rive...
Photograph

Resting at Night on Patrol, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement soldiers resting by a stream in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Two soldiers aresleeping on the sandy bank and two sold...
Photograph

Break on Patrol, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement soldiers rest by a river in Oriente Province while on patrol during the Cuban Revolution. They are sitting on a rocky bank of the riv...
Photograph

Soldiers Inspect Papers

Date: 1962
Description: An American soldier inspects the papers of a Vietnamese man in the countryside along a river. Vietnamese soldiers and a boy are grouped around him.
Photograph

Vietnamese Soldiers Hike through Forest

Date: 1962
Description: Elevated view of a group of Vietnamese soldiers wearing berets hiking through a forest in Vietnam. The footpath they are on is bordered on one side by tree...
Photograph

Sea Swallow Militia on Canal

Date: 11 1961
Description: Sea Swallows, an anti-communist Vietnamese militia, begin an operation by boats on a canal in the vicinity of Van Dinh, Vietnam. Militia members hold guns ...
Photograph

Memorial Day

Date: 1968
Description: "Memorial Day."
Photograph

Memorial Day

Date: 1968
Description: "American Legion Post 270 members assemble on the bridge on Memorial Day."
Photograph

Boy Sitting on Dock

Date: 1954
Description: The little cowboy with a toy gun on the pier is John Paul Widmer. The pier was on the Rock River at the west end of Henni Street in Theresa.
Photograph

Gates' Ravine from Above Boiling Eddy #1007

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of two men sitting on the side of a rock formation. The man on the right is holding a rifle and a stringer of squirrels. The man on the left ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Photograph

Soldiers on Bridge

Date: 1943
Description: Soldiers in battle gear, holding rifles, marching in a long line across a wooden bridge. Across the water is a building on the shoreline with the jungle be...
Photograph

Repaired Deck Truss Bridge

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view from steep shoreline of a railroad bridge repaired with timber stacked all the way up from the riverbed to reinforce the truss of the bridge....

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