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Painting

Wisconsin Heights Battlefield

Date: 1856
Description: Painting by S.M. Brookes of the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield.
Painting

Bad Axe Battleground

Date: 1856
Description: This landscape painting by Samuel Marsden Brookes and Thomas H. Stevenson depicts a broad view of the confluence of Bad Axe and Mississippi Rivers; site of...
Painting

Sunset from Lake Monona

Date: 1881
Description: Sunset from Lake Monona.
Drawing

Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau

Date: 1872
Description: The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
Print

View of Southport

Date: 1842
Description: Lithograph of Southport.
Book or Pamphlet

Las Isletas-Falls of Presidio de Rio Grande

Date: 1857
Description: An etching showing the landscape and vegetation around the Rio Grande.
Painting

Little Chute Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center . . . [One of them] is Little Chute, one of the pleasan...
Print

McCormick Letterpress Print of Wire Binder

Date: 1877
Description: Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor...
Photograph

Across at the Dam — A Moonlight Effect #1085

Date: 1890
Description: Sunlight shining through a cloud, illuminating the water below. "Text at right: "Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Wisconsin Scenery."
Print

Sunset, Lake Michigan

Date: 1874
Description: Engaved view depicting a dramatic sunset through clouds over Lake Michigan. Several sailing ships are in the foreground.

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