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Map or Atlas

Wisconsin, a sectional map with the most recent surveys

Date: 1846
Description: This map shows the counties and towns in existence at the time as well as lead and copper mines.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

The lead district passes century

Date: 1927-07-03
County: Iowa
City: Dodgeville
Property Record

526 PROSPECT

Community: Portage
County: Columbia
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 56261
Photograph

Tenney Park

Date: 10 1954
Description: A gravel path leads to a bridge in Tenney Park.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Indian leads doctor to lost villages

Date: 1931-06-21
County: Sheboygan
City: Sheboygan
Photograph

James Mine

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of James Mine with a field and fence in the foreground. Tram tracks lead from the tall building to large piles of rocks. There are steep stai...
Map or Atlas

Map of the United States' Lead Mines on the Upper Mississippi River

Date: 1888
Description: This is a reproduction of a map originally published in 1829 by R.W. Chandler, a pioneer settler of Galena. It is based on an earlier map by surveyor Luciu...
Photograph

Newspaper Print Shop

Date: 1950
Description: Sports editor and sports reporter from the "Wisconsin State Journal" confer with a printer over trays of lead type.
Photograph

Family on Garden Path

Date: 1869
Description: A view up a garden path leads past family members to a bracket-style frame house with outbuildings.
Photograph

Main Street Arch

Date: 1898
Description: Main Street in Little Chute looking towards Kaukauna; the arch is at the intersection of the street that leads to the Chicago & Northwestern Depot.
Photograph

West Pullman Works

Date: 1930
Description: Factory workers lead a long wooden or metal cylinder through a machine at International Harvester's West Pullman Works.
Photograph

Daniel Travanti

Date: 05 1986
Description: Daniel J. Travanti in the lobby of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Daniel J. Travanti was a lead actor in the television weekly series "Hill Str...
Photograph

Native American Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: Ho-Chunk Chief Winneshiek leads a powwow just North of Main Street in Black River Falls.
Photograph

Gynasium, Northwestern College

Date: 1863
Description: View of the gymnasium at Northwestern College. A staircase leads up the terraced hill to the brick building.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin, a Sectional Map with the Most Recent Surveys

Date: 1850
Description: Mid and southern Wisconsin counties, city/town lines, lead mines, copper mines, streams, plank roads, and the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Roads.
Photograph

Railroad Tracks

Date: 
Description: View down railroad tracks that lead to industrial buildings and a smokestack. A caption on the image reads, "Zink (Zinc) Works, Mineral Point, Wis."
Photograph

February Tracks

Date: 1955
Description: Tire tracks in fresh snow lead into a barnyard with a farmhouse and farm buildings.
Photograph

Class in Session

Date: 05 01 1963
Description: A female student leads a class of fellow students. She is a member of the Future Teachers of America Club.
Photograph

Pioneer Slag Tower and Furnace

Date: 1948
Description: Large brick kiln-like structure in field. Built in 1876, the blast furnace was used to salvage additional lead from the slag of 18 area furnaces operating ...
Photograph

Northern Comfort Female Lead Singer Dancing

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Lead singer Barbara Swenson of Northern Comfort dancing on stage with a microphone stand in the foreground. A guitarist is in the background.

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