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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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Felling White Pine
circa 1900-1909
Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut.
Beaver Hunting Techniques
circa 1900-1909
An early drawing depicting various beaver hunting techniques.
Hodag
Hodag standing on a board balanced on logs near a road. There is a gasoline filling station in the background.
A Beaver Pool
circa 1900-1909
Sketch of a beaver pool lined with trees, including various depictions of Indians hunting beaver.
Rhinelander Wisconsin "Home of the Hodag"
A sculpture of the mythical hodag is posed in a clearing. Caption reads: "RHINELANDER WISCONSIN 'HOME OF THE HODAG' On the first night of the arrival of lumber camp novices, an Indian from the ca...
