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| Date: | 08 19 1964 |
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| Description: | A number of Early Birds of Aviation acquaintances, men who flew solo prior to December 17, 1916, came together to honor A.P. Warner and the historical mark... |
| Date: | 09 05 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Nellie Red Cloud, mother of the Korean War hero, Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., shaking hands with V.L. Fiedler, State Highway Commission district ... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co... |
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| Description: | High-relief, concrete-cast sculpture of a winged, four-armed gargoyle in Sid's backyard. The mouth is gaping with white fangs. Its upper body and head are ... |
| Date: | 06 1969 |
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| Description: | The Cedarburg Bridge, originally known as the Red Bridge, with a flowering tree on the right. Originally Wisconsin had more than 40 covered bridges. This i... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin state official historical marker titled 'Forest Restoration, The Beginning.' The text reads: "This place on Trout Lake was selected by E.M. G... |
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| Description: | Jacques Vieau, agent for the Northwest Fur Company of Montreal, built a trading post here in 1796, on what is now called Jambo Creek after the nickname the... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A sign north of Shawano marks the Military Road, built 1864-1871, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Marquette, Michigan. In 1924 the Wisconsin portion of the r... |
| Date: | 10 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Neil LeMany, Chief Forest Ranger at the Forest Protection Headquarters in Tomahawk, C.L. Harrington, superintendent of the Forest and Parks Division of the... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View across lower section of dam at Cornell Wood Products Company. In the background are factory buildings, a tall smokestack, and a water tower. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over dam of the site of the Cornell Wood Products Company. On the opposite shoreline is a pulpwood stacker, tall smokestack, water tower, and... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "World's First Snowmobile, Sayner, Wisconsin. Invented in 1924 by Carl Eliason of Sayner (pictured). This machine is liquid cooled, ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Solomon Freeman wearing a suit and sitting in a chair. Solomon Freeman was a slave purchased by Abraham Bush as a boy. The Bush family moved to... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man, child and dog pose between two long sheds. Underneath the sheds are rows of wooden boxes. |
| Date: | 01 13 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Neshonoc Falls, West Salem, Wis." The Neshonoc Dam, powerhouse and spillway on the La Crosse River. The powerhouse was built after 18... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center....The third, another rural river scene, whose composit... |
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