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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...
Photograph

Wisconsin River from Cactus Bluff

Date: 08 03 1946
Description: View of the Wisconsin River from Cactus Bluff.
Photograph

Jones Island

Date: 1961
Description: Shoreline of Lake Michigan. This is mainly a commercial fishing community, and some of the Lake Michigan ferry boats dock here. A pole with a lifesaving ri...
Postcard

Boulder Lake at Camp Manitowish

Date: 
Description: Colorized postcard of Boulder Lake. Pine trees are in the foreground and islands are below in the background. Caption reads: "Boulder Lake at Camp Manitowi...
Photograph

The Bombing of Cezembre Island

Date: 08 31 1944
Description: View from shoreline of Cezembre Island, just north of Saint-Malo on the north coast of France. It was German-occupied until the Allies mounted an operation...
Photograph

The Bombing of Cezembre Island

Date: 08 31 1944
Description: Smoke rising from Cezembre Island, just north of Saint-Malo on the north coast of France. The island, which took a tremendous shelling, can barely be seen ...
Photograph

View of Archibald Lake

Date: 1917
Description: View from hill looking across the eastern half of Archibald Lake. In the distance is the narrow passageway connecting the east and west sides of the lake. ...
Postcard

Lake Thompson

Date: 06 10 1952
Description: Text on front reads: "Lake Thompson, Rhinelander, Wis." View of a wooded island from a boat landing on Lake Thompson. Rowboats are pulled up onto the shore...

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