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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 Working on Building
Men working on the foundation of a building, possibly laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam.
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.
Men Building Dam
Men laying the foundation for the post-flood business district dam.
Dam Construction
Men working on the foundation of a building, possibly laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam.
Men Working on Powerhouse
Men working on the bulkhead above the powerhouse and the powerhouse flume.
Men Working on First Street
Men working on the passage of Town Creek under First Street, one-half block north of Main Street.
