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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Trempealeau River and its banks, with a building and bridge in the background. Caption reads: "Trempealeau River Scene, Blair, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of Jefferson across the Rock River. Caption reads: "Panoramic View of Jefferson, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a river with a dam in the distance. Caption reads: "River Scene, Mayville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | This was the first bridge built across the Wisconsin River, constructed about 1850, although it was not opened to traffic until 1852. It was torn down in 1... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Fishing implements on the shoreline of the Mississippi River, and a bluff in the background. Caption reads: "Fish Industry, Mississippi River, La Crosse, W... |
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| Description: | View of Profile Rock at Farwell Point on Lake Mendota. Caption reads: "Profile Rock, Lake Mendota, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Path along Lake Michigan beach. Below are people walking along the shoreline. Further down the path is a small group of people. Pilings are in the water in... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | View down the hill toward the U.S. Coast Guard Station on the left with two communications towers on the Lake Michigan shoreline. Railroad tracks are just ... |
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| Description: | Hilltop view of the Congregational church on Madeline Island (?). In the background are buildings, houses, and the shoreline of a lake. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from Lake Mendota of buildings on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The boathouse, Armory (later the Red Gym or Old Red), and Science Hall c... |
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| Description: | View across water toward The Cherry on the shoreline among trees. Caption reads: "'The Cherry' at Everett's Resort, Eagle River, Wis." |
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| Description: | A wooded lakeside scene at Wilsie's WHite Birch Lodge including a small bridge and a footpath leading to picnic tables. Caption reads: "Scene at Wilsie's W... |
| Date: | 06 18 1929 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of Williams' Bay on Boulder Lake. Caption reads: "Williams' Bay, Boulder Lake, Boulder Jct., Wis." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view from shoreline of a bridge over the Chippewa River. Caption reads: "Bridge Crossing Chippewa River, Bruce, Wis." |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of a river view of the Fox River as it runs through the city of Burlington. In the foreground is a railroad bridge. Just behind th... |
| Date: | 09 02 1908 |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of the Mill Dam. The water is running over the dam from the left and becoming rapids on the right. There is a wooded shoreline on ... |
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| Description: | Postcard of the Grand Piano geological formation on Devil's Island. Caption reads: "Apostle Islands, Wis. Devil's Island, the Grand Piano." |
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| Description: | Postcard of the "Vessel's Stern and Rudder Post" geological formation on Madeline Island, one of the Apostle Islands. View of the shoreline and a man sitti... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a view of the geologic formation known as the Green Room near the lighthouse on Devil's Island, part of the Apostle Islands. A boat w... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of Castle Rock, a geological formation of the coast of the Apostle Islands. A man is sitting under the arch. Caption reads: "Castle Rock... |
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