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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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Men Building Dam
Men constructing the post-flood business district dam using steam-powered machinery.
Two Men with Steam Tractor
Two men operating a steam tractor/donkey used to haul logs. Piles of logs are stacked behind them.
Men Working on Building
Men constructing a building, or laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam, using steam-powered machinery in front of the Merchants Hotel.
Steam Shovel Cutting German Hill
1911
View towards a steam shovel working on a hill by a railway and water tank. Location identified as the cutting down of German Hill for fill to reconstruct the downtown of Black River Falls after the...
