Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 64

Photograph

Harry Elsworth Cole

Date: 1916
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Harry Elsworth Cole (1861-1928), founder and first president of the Sauk County Historical Society, also president of the...
Photograph

Below the Falls

Date: 1910
Description: Two women stand on a ledge at Skillet Falls.
Photograph

Men Fishing at Woods Dam

Date: 1909
Description: Three men fish with long cane poles at a rock lined stream.
Photograph

Point Sauk

Date: 1909
Description: Two women and a man stand in the distance on the crest of a grassy rise.
Photograph

Woman at Spring

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified woman stands beside a stone spring house at a spring between Mt. Horeb and Black Earth.
Photograph

Group Looking over Fence

Date: 1906
Description: A group of adults, including Harry E. Cole (center), stand behind a fence. A sign on the fence reads, "YOU CAN'T PLAY IN OUR BACK YARD."
Photograph

Daniel Reynolds

Date: 1910
Description: Daniel Reynolds poses beside a tree. There is a board sidewalk near a street behind him.
Photograph

Pioneer Well

Date: 10 1924
Description: J.R. Hastie stands beside a chain and crank operated pump at the pioneer well, "a few miles below Portage."
Photograph

Heart of the Hills Walking Club

Date: 1926
Description: Members and guests of the Heart of the Hills Walking Club pose on a bluff near Devil's Lake. H.E. Cole stands second from right.
Photograph

Old Settlers Cabin

Date: 1906
Description: W.H. Canfield stands in front of a log cabin. There is a brick chimney on the right side of the building.
Photograph

John Gottlieb Kleinlein

Date: 1906
Description: Mr. Kleinlein poses outdoors with a photograph in his hand. There is a large building on a hill in the background.
Photograph

W.H. Canfield

Date: 1906
Description: William H. Canfield, an early settler of Sauk County, civil engineer, local historian and archeologist, posing outdoors holding a walking stick.
Photograph

Cahoon Mine

Date: 10 19 1925
Description: A workman smokes a cigarette in the foreground as a steam shovel loads iron ore at the Cahoon Mine.
Photograph

The Western Inn

Date: 1925
Description: A woman on horseback poses with another horse in front of the three-story Western Inn as people look on from the porches. There is a large belvedere on th...
Photograph

Stagecoach Office

Date: 1925
Description: A photographic print of an older illustration which was created by W. E.S. Trowbridge for Reminiscences of Early Chicago and Vicinity by Edwin O. Ga...
Drawing

Sauganash Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: A copy of an older illustration of the Sauganash Tavern, located on Lake Street in Chicago near Market. It was "built in 1831 by Mark Beaubien, who claimed...
Photograph

Heart of the Hills Walking Club

Date: 03 02 1925
Description: Eight men comprising the Heart of the Hills Walking Club, founded by H.E. Cole, pose with a dog beside a house. They are left to right, Harold Baldwin, T.F...
Photograph

Dodgeville Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: Three men are working outside on the street in front of the Dodgeville Hotel.
Photograph

Devil's Doorway

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a woman standing in the Devil's Doorway above Devil's Lake. There is graffiti on the rocks.
Photograph

Stand Rock

Date: 1910
Description: A man in motion moves toward making the leap to Stand Rock as men and women watch nearby.

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: