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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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Accessing Collections
The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Felling White Pine
Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut.
Lumberjacks in the Bunkhouse
1904
Lumberjacks posing together in a bunkhouse at Ole Emerson's lumber camp. There are lanterns hanging from the ceiling. Two of the men are holding fiddles (violins).
Pilgrims of the Plains
1871
Wood engraving of pioneer men, one of whom is playing a violin, surrounded by covered wagons.
Lumberjacks Eating
Lumberjacks eating in a cook shanty; probably early twentieth century.
