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In Rood's Glen

Date: 1874
Description: Engraved view of Rood's Glen. A boy plays with a toy boat at bottom left while two men and a woman talk at bottom right. Two other figures can be seen in t...
Map or Atlas

Map of Columbia County, State of Wisconsin

Date: 1861
Description: This 1861 map of Columbia County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, property owners and...
Photograph

Mill and Bridge

Date: 1911
Description: View across bridge of mill. There is a man standing on a wagon near the side of the mill. Behind the mill is a steep hill, with a house visible among trees...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Town of Columbus, Columbia Co., Wisconsin

Date: 1856
Description: This map shows plat of town, local streets, railroads, projected railroads, residential buildings, mills, and part of the Crawfish River. The map includes ...
Map or Atlas

Diagram of "Claim No. 21," or Grignon's Tract : (Webb & Bronson's Plat of the Town of Fort Winnebago,) Showing Noted Early Points at Portage.

Date: 1800
Description: This map shows the land claim owned by the Portage Canal Company and includes an index of landownership and landmarks. The Wisconsin and Portage River, the...
Postcard

Bird's-Eye View of Columbus

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view looking across the downtown area. The Crawfish River is on the left. Caption reads: "Bird's-Eye View, Columbus, W...
Postcard

Night Scene at the Dam

Date: 1910
Description: Color postcard view from shoreline looking towards of the dam on the Crawfish River. Buildings are on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "Night Scene a...
Postcard

Crawfish River, Below the Dam

Date: 1900
Description: Color-enhanced black and white postcard looking at the dam on the Crawfish River from downstream. Caption reads: "Crawfish River, below the Dam, Columbus, ...
Postcard

Columbus Canning Company

Date: 1920
Description: Color postcard of the Columbus Canning Company along the river. Caption reads: "The Columbus Canning Co., Columbus, Wis."
Map or Atlas

Winnebago City : on Swan Lake, [Wisconsin].

Date: 1830
Description: This plat map is pen-and-ink on tracing paper and shows a paper city planned in the late 1830's located on the shore of Swan Lake, Columbia County, Wiscons...
Map or Atlas

Poynette: Lake Wisconsin Resort Area

Date: 1956
Description: This map shows Lake Wisconsin, roads, highways, parks, resort areas, camps, gardens, and Wisconsin State experimental game and fur farm. The back of the ma...
Map or Atlas

Map of Winnebago Portage, Situated on the Portage Canal Between the Fox & Wisconsin Rivers : Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1836
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, streets, a proposed canal basin, Fort Winnebago, and the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. Relief is shown by hachures and no...
Map or Atlas

City of Portage

Date: 1855
Description: This map shows landownership, lot and block numbers, streets, a canal, bridges, Fort Winnebago, the Wisconsin River, and the Fox River. Relief is shown by ...
Map or Atlas

Townships 12 and 13 N, Ranges 9 and 10 East : Portion of Columbia County, Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: This photostat map shows Fort Winnebago around 1931, land to be reserved for military purposes, roads to Fort Howard and Fort Crawford, "private property" ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Columbia County, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows landownership, churches, schools, farm houses, wagon roads, railroads, and townships and includes businesses advertisements, tables of stati...
Photograph

Dells Navy Yard

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view of the navy yard near Wisconsin Dells.
Map or Atlas

Part of Townships 12 & 13, Range 9 East, 4th Mer

Date: 1900
Description: This manuscript map shows outline of Fort Winnebago reserve land, Fort Winnebago, claim of A. Grignon, and Indian boundaries. The Fox River and Swan Lake a...
Photograph

Marquette Historic Marker

Date: 06 30 1957
Description: View across lawn towards a crowd, with costumed participants dressed as Native Americans, fur traders, and Jacques Marquette, at the dedication of the Marq...
Photograph

August Derleth

Date: 1941
Description: August Derleth posing on a boat tied up to a pier on the Wisconsin River. With him are Ruth Marshall (seated), another woman, and a dog. Four men are stand...
Photograph

Sheep

Date: 1935
Description: A flock of sheep walking along the bank of a small winding river. There are trees in the background. A typewritten note on the reverse states: "A scene in ...

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