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Painting

Wisconsin Heights Battlefield

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

Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1953
Description: Trucks mounting a steep grade in the testing track at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by Inte...
Photograph

Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1953
Description: View of International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International Harvester through the 1970's to test...
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.
Photograph

Sloping Farmland

Date: 05 17 1966
Description: View uphill towards a farmer planting crops on a treeless slope which rises just beyond him, with a cloudy sky above. Various grasses are growing in the fo...
Postcard

Elephant Rock, Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 1933
Description: Colorized postcard of the rock formation called Elephant Rock in Devil's Lake State Park. Trees, shrubs and foliage can be seen all around. Bluffs and sky ...
Photograph

Rock River

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: "Cows graze along the Rock River southeast of Theresa."
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...
Photograph

Europe Bay

Date: 1923
Description: Sunlight glints off the water under a threatening sky.
Postcard

Dells of the Chippewa River by Moonlight

Date: 1910
Description: View of the dells on the Chippewa river. The night view shows a wooden walkway along the base of the cliff leading toward a railroad bridge across the rive...
Photograph

Wisconsin Lake

Date: 
Description: View from grassy shoreline towards a lake. On the right is a rocky shoreline with an overhanging tree.
Postcard

The Mississippi from Levee Park

Date: 
Description: View from shoreline towards the Mississippi River, with the sun shining through the clouds and sparkling on the water. Hills are in the distance. Caption r...
Photograph

Near Wyoming Valley

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin farm scene, south of Lone Rock, but in Iowa County. A church can be seen on the left. The hills are the south bluffs of the Wisconsin River.

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