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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...
Photograph

West Side Business Men's Association

Date: 08 17 1948
Description: Members of the West Side Business Men's Association shown as they met for the first time at the future site of their new clubhouse and community center on ...
Photograph

West Side Business Men's Association

Date: 08 17 1948
Description: Group portrait of members of the West Side Business Men's Association at the site of their future clubhouse on Odana Road.
Photograph

Babcock Hall

Date: 1954
Description: Babcock Hall on University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A bicycle is parked near the entrance in the grass.
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

Abandonded Farm with Windmill

Date: 06 09 1963
Description: View of a dilapidated outbuilding and a windmill on an abandoned farm.
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

Jim Widmer in Field

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: "With the aid of a self timer the photographer stepped into this picture."
Photograph

Rock River

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

Marge Walsch

Date: 1949
Description: "Marge Walsch."
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.
Photograph

Lakewoods Resort on Namagakon Lake

Date: 1931
Description: Scenic view from shoreline over Namakagon Lake towards the opposite shoreline. There are two large buildings nestled among trees with a pergola on the lawn...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog with Calendar — January & December

Date: 1895
Description: Front and back cover of catalog, for the months of January and December. January features a buck running through the woods, with the year "1894" over a lar...
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

Highway Bridge

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: View from snowy shoreline of Highway Bridge, the east approach. The lake is frozen. Just beyond the shoreline a boat is moored at a landing, and an automob...
Photograph

Port Washington Harbor

Date: 07 27 1960
Description: View from shoreline at Port Washington south of two ramps within a breakwater. There is a lighthouse in the background. Boats are along a pier on the right...

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