Skip to main content

click zoom to display a high-res image
Photographs

Cana Island Lighthouse

Image

The Cana Island lighthouse and keeper's house with the rocky shore in the foreground.

Date Created:
1912
Creator:
Hotz, Ferdinand

Publication Information

Creator Hotz, Ferdinand
Date Created 1912

Physical Description

Format Image
Extent 1 photograph
Dimensions 16 x 9 cm

Collection Information

Source Collection Ferdinand Hotz photographs, 1900-1998
Call Number PH 6706.80.1
Catalog Record https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9911126539302121

Copyright Information

Copyright Status NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
Rights Holder Wisconsin Historical Society
Unique ID
W012GXH
Legacy ID
WHi 94012

Image

Digital Collections

Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
 
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.

View Our Curated Collections

Attribution

For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier. 

The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.

For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.

 

 

Accessing Collections

The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.

Plan Your Visit

Photographs
Cana Island Lighthouse

Cana Island Lighthouse

1920

The Cana Island Lighthouse and keeper's house as seen across the rocky shoreline.

View
Photographs
Cana Island Lighthouse

Cana Island Lighthouse

1912

Cana Island lighthouse is seen in the far distance across the stony shoreline along Lake Michigan.

View
Photographs
Cana Island

Cana Island

1915

Birch and evergreen trees line the rocky shore of Toft Point, with Cana Island and its lighthouse in the background.

View
Photographs
Cana Island

Cana Island

1920

View from beach across Spike Horn Bay towards Cana Island and the Cana Island Light.

View
Photographs
Baileys Harbor Lighthouse

Baileys Harbor Lighthouse

1915

The Baileys Harbor Light as seen from the water. The lighthouse, with a tapered cylindrical stone base, birdcage lantern, and copper dome, was deactivated in 1869. It was replaced by the Baileys Ha...

View
Photographs
Baileys Harbor Lighthouse

Baileys Harbor Lighthouse

1915

Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) Hotz, far left, sisters Helen, left, and Alice, sit with Thomas Toft on the rocky shore near the Baileys Harbor lighthouse. A rowboat is moored in the background.

View
Go to top
Wisconsin Historical Society
Search Dropdown