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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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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.
Old Charcoal Furnace
The Old Cornwall Charcoal Furnace was originally built by Peter Grubb in 1742, and later closed in 1883. Caption reads: "Old Charcoal Furnace, Built 1742, Cornwall, PA."
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.
North Lebanon Furnaces
Robert and George Dawson Coleman built the North Lebanon Furnaces in 1847 and 1848 on the southern slopes of what is now Coleman’s Park. Caption reads: "North Lebanon Furnaces, Lebanon, PA."
36 McKinley Furnace
36 McKinley Furnace was constructed by Theodore Powers and A. L. Crawford in 1848. Caption reads: "McKinley Furnace, New Castle, PA."
Cornwall Ore Banks
Cornwall Ore Banks includes one of the greatest iron mines in the world and it has been mined for more than two centuries. A steam shovel is shown loading iron ore from the greatest iron ore deposi...
Laurel Hill Furnace
The Laurel Hill Furnace was built in 1845 located along Baldwin Run, southeast of New Florence.
