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Photograph

Raftsman's Series Unnumbered : Working a Spanish Windlass

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph view of five men on a raft working a Spanish windlass.
Photograph

Raftsman's Series No. 1411: Witching Up

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a group of men "witching up."
Photograph

Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: The Crew

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of the raft's crew.
Photograph

Man in a Boat

Date: 05 14 1894
Description: A man seated on a low boat floats down the Ohio River.
Photograph

Boating in Kashmir

Date: 1951
Description: Boatman on a river in Kashmir. In the background are other boats along a tree-lined shore.
Photograph

Fishing on Crawfish River

Date: 1901
Description: View from shoreline of a man standing in a boat, dipping for carp on the Crawfish River. Behind him dip nets are set up on scaffolds in the river. There ar...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 7-11

Date: 
Description: I had to know the point to which the path was tracked
and when the definition would cease to be my own
Print

Bookbinders Sea Food House Menu

Date: 07 15 1961
Description: Menu from Bookbinders Sea Food House. The cover features an illustration of a fisherman holding a net with a boat in the background, framed by a border of ...
Photograph

William Turvill in Rowboat Carrying Farm Produce

Date: 1897
Description: View over water towards William Turvill, rowing a boat loaded with farm produce in wooden crates and baskets. There is a tree-lined shoreline in the backgr...
Photograph

Edward Petersen

Date: 1900
Description: Edward Petersen at home, wearing a smoking jacket with quilted collar and cuffs. He is sitting in a wide doorway, hanging with tasseled draperies, holding ...
Photograph

Lew Porter in a Sailing Canoe

Date: 
Description: View across water towards Lew Porter, a Madison architect, in a sailing canoe with two sails.
Postcard

A Sample Catch; Scenery at Cedar Lake

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard of two images: the one on the left is titled: "A Sample Catch" and is of three men holding the fish they caught, with a dog sitting a...
Photograph

Wet Man

Date: 
Description: Portrait of a man standing on a pier near a lake.

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