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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.
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Cattle Drive In Alma
circa 1890-1899
Farmers driving their cattle to a stockyard near the Burlington Depot, a weekly occurrence.
Boys on Mississippi River
circa 1890-1899
Groups of boys on the Mississippi River shore undressing for a swim. Alma is visible across the river.
Swimming in the Mississippi River
1890
View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline.
Alma Milling Company Fire
April 6, 1899
Street view showing Alma Milling Co. building on fire. Photograph was taken from Gerhard Gesell's studio balcony.
Gerhard Gesell, Jr., in Baseball Uniform
circa 1890-1899
Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Gerhard Gesell, Jr., wearing a baseball uniform.
Alma from across the Mississippi River
circa 1890-1899
Alma from across the Mississippi River. Steamer 'U.S. General Barnard" is at a landing.
