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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Voyageurs in Camp for the Night
March 1892
Engraving of voyageurs gathered around a fire at their camp.
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.
In a Stiff Current
March 1892
Three men are dragging their canoe upriver through a strong current. In the background other men are standing on the far river bank near canoes pulled up on the shore.
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.
Lead-Mining Furnace
1853
Engraved exterior view of a lead mining furnace. A man sits in a horse-drawn wagon at the left of the building.
En Route on Stagecoach
February 1855
Engraved image from Harper's New Monthly Magazine showing people riding in a stagecoach pulled by two horses.
