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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.
The Marble Quarry
View across water toward the marble quarries at the edge of Dorset. They are said to be the oldest in the country and provided the marble for buildings such as the New York City Library.
Marble Quarry
A quarry of Alaska Marble Company at Calder, with men at work. Photograph published by Winter and Pond Company. Caption reads: "Marble Quarry, Calder, Alaska."
A Vermont Marble Company
The marble company employees at work in a quarry. By 1885 the Rutland quarries employed about 3,000 workers.
Stone Quarry
Carthage was once well-known for the fine-grained, extremely dense grey limestone, "Carthage Marble," that came from the stone quarries. Caption reads: "Stone Quarry, Carthage, MO."
Edison Quarry and Crusher Plant
Edison Quarry was opened in the largest outcropping area of Precambrian marble south of the Franklin - Sterling Hill area. Edison's crusher is said to be able to handle 10-ton rocks. Caption reads:...
Bangor Slate Quarry
Cables run across the Bangor Slate Quarry, a major world center for slate. The slate industry was begun in Bangor by Robert M. Jones in 1848.
