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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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Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Ore Mining
Elevated view of steam shovels at work, removing taconite from Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Mine, functioning as an open cast mine because of its soft, shallow ore deposits.
Steam Shovel
Elevated view of a steam shovel scooping iron ore into cars at, the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine.
Old Anthracite Ore Roasters
By 1883, anthracite furnaces were heavy competition for companies such as Cornwall Furnace. Caption reads: "Old Anthracite Ore Roasters, Cornwall, PA."
Steam Shovels Loading Railroad Cars with Iron Ore
Miners at work using steam shovels and railroad cars for transporting iron ore in Virginia, located on the Mesabi Iron Range.
Steam Shovel
A 300 ton steam shovel scooping iron ore at the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine.
Bird Coleman Furnaces
Erected next to the Cornwall Ore Banks by R.W. Coleman's Heirs and Company, construction of the first of the Bird Coleman furnaces began in 1872, the second in 1880.
