#wisconsin winters

Ice skaters at Kosciuszko Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 7, 1922.

Nitrate negative, Photo by Roman B.J. Kwasniewski

via:University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries

University President  E.B Fred goes ice fishing with Ruth Pommerening and Aristotle Alexander, Madison, Wisconsin, 1945-1958.

via:The UW-Madison Collection, University of Wisconsin Archives and UW Digital Collections

Women pose on a skating rink in front of the University of Wisconsin Armory and Gymnasium, also called “the Red Gym,” Madison, Wisconsin.

via: University of Wisconsin Madison Archives, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Hunters with their dogs. The man third from the right is identified as Ed Rosenthal and fourth from the right as George Roseninal, Vesper, Wood County, Wisconsin, 1948-1952.

via:South Wood County Historical Society

Shoveling the Walk, Wisconsin Rapids, Wood County, Wisconsin, 1948-1952.

Photo by Donald Krohn

via:South Wood County Historical Museum

Preparations for a skating party

A group of intrepid and  well-dressed Omro citizens, including Bessie Myers at far left and Georgia Carter at far right, make preparations for a skating party on the Fox River, Omro, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, ca. 1900.

via: The State of Wisconsin Collection, Photograph courtesy of the Carter Memorial Library, by way of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Civilian Conservation Corps Camp 657, Two recruits and four young women ice skate on Otter Lake, Elcho, Langlade County, Wisconsin, 1933-1937.

Photo by Edward Drab

via:Langlade County Historical Society 

Ice boating, Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin, 1907.

via: University of Wisconsin Madison Archives, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

John Hausch watches as his son, Bobby, displays a Northern pike caught during Fisheree on Eagle Spring Lake, Eagle, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, January, 1964.

Photo by Dean Tvedt

via:Wisconsin’s Historic Natural Resources Photos, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Boy with ice skates, Wisconsin Rapids, Wood County, Wisconsin, 1948-1952.

Photograph by Donald Krohn

via:South Wood Historical Society Museum

Miss Apolonia Makowska, female ice skater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1922.

Photographs by Roman B.J. Kwasniewski

via:University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries

Iceboating, a man  identified as “Grede” lays in an iceboat on Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin, February 26, 1916.

Photo by Fred R. Jones

via:The UW-Madison Collection, University of Wisconsin Archives and UW Digital Collections

Students walk along a snowy Bascom  Hill. The old, domed Bascom Hall and the old Law School are visible, along with wooden sidewalks along Park Street, University of Wisconsin-Madison, ca. 1900.

via:UW-Madison Collection, University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives and University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Statue of Liberty on Lake Mendota, Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin.

The Statue of Liberty was built on Lake Mendota in February 1979 by the Pail and Shovel Party, which had gained control of the Wisconsin Student Association in the spring of 1978. The original statue was torched by an unknown arsonist ten days after it had been constructed. A new, improved statue was erected in February of 1980. That statue was rescued from a barn near Richland Center in the mid 1990s, and Hoofers helped restore it and used it in their Winter Carnival in 1996. The statue currently belongs to Dane County.

via:UW-Madison Collection, University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives and University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Blizzard-like conditions, view of Highway 41, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, February 8, 1936.

Colored glass lantern slide. Photo by George Chase

via:The State of Wisconsin Collection, Kenosha County Historical Society and UW Digital Collections Center

Ice formations at a mill, Gagen, Langlade County, Wisconsin, 1900 – 1920.

Photograph by Arthur J. Kingsbury

via:Langlade County Historical Society

Cornfalfa Farms, New Berlin, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, 1915.

Several  lambs and their mother stand outside the barn door as Jayson Swartz observes on a cold winter day.

Trees in the original south orchard. Some of these trees were set out in the 1850s by William Swartz, father of Peter Morgan Swartz.

Jayson Swartz walking in deep snow in alfalfa field on Cornfalfa Farms. Illustrating Swartz’s recommendation that ample fall growth and trapping snow is beneficial to a healthy crop for the following year.

via: New Berlin Historical Society