Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-13 of 13

Photograph

Lumber Camp

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs.
Photograph

Two Men with Steam Tractor

Date: 
Description: Two men operating a steam tractor/donkey used to haul logs. Piles of logs are stacked behind them.
Photograph

Men Working on Tipped Train Cars

Date: 
Description: A panoramic view of many men gathered on the railroad tracks on an embankment, working to up-right train cars that have tipped over. On the right is a loco...
Photograph

Goodyear Mill

Date: 
Description: Lumberyard with railroad lines and a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in McKenna.
Photograph

York Iron Works

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of York Iron Works with a view of the blast furnace and pig iron stock piles. The boardinghouse is visible on the hill in the far background.
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: Men posed sitting and standing in a logging camp in front of a steam locomotive. A man in the middle foreground is posed sitting and playing a concertina. ...
Photograph

Railroad Bridge Over River

Date: 
Description: Elevated view looking across river of a railroad train on a railroad bridge crossing a river. On the rocks in the foreground below is a man fishing with a ...
Photograph

Sand Haulers at Town Creek

Date: 
Description: View towards men standing by a line of sand haulers on a railway. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in ...
Photograph

Derailed Locomotive

Date: 
Description: A group of men, some with shovels, are working near the front of a locomotive that has derailed. There is a pile of sacks in the background on the right. A...
Photograph

Derailed Locomotive

Date: 
Description: View down railroad tracks towards men standing and watching machinery clearing train wreckage.
Photograph

Railroad Station

Date: 
Description: View from a railroad platform and railroad tracks. A locomotive with railroad cars is parked on the far track. One man is standing next to the locomotive; ...
Photograph

Group of People at Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: Elevated outdoor group portrait of men assembled at a logging camp. Horses are on the left, and a locomotive hauling cars of logs is in the background.
Photograph

Locomotive Hauling Logs

Date: 
Description: Outdoor view of men standing with horses near a locomotive hauling logs through a forest. Two loggers are standing in the center.

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at:

feedback@wisconsinhistory.org