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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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A Fur Trader in the Council Tepee
February 1892
Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee.
The Missionary
1892
Photographic print of an engraved image showing a robed missionary standing in a birch bark canoe paddled by four Native Americans and another man who appears to be a fur trader.
Family Around Christmas Tree
1850
An engraving depicting a formally dressed family gathered around a Christmas tree, which is lit with candles.
Lumber Camp Bunkhouse
Loggers gathered in the bunk house. Boots and socks dry above the stove.
Voyageur with Tumpline
1892
Illustration of "Voyageur with Tumpline". A tumpline is a strap attached at both ends to a load and used to carry the object by placing the strap over the top of the head.
The Slide
1880
Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow.
