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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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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.
Catch of Trout at Whip'poorwill Camp
1937
Two people holding a stringer of trout caught on Siskiwit Lake.
Trout Caught near Washburn
1935
View of three trout with a fishing basket (creel) and two rods laying on the ground. The trout were caught near Washburn.
Lifting the Nets on Lake Superior
1937
Four men in a large row boat lifting fishing nets on Lake Superior near Cornucopia.
Unloading Coal in Washburn
1936
Unloading coal from a large ship in Lake Superior onto land near Washburn. There is a large conveyor that has lights glowing in the dark sky. A large pile of coal is on the right.
Aerial View of Washburn
1935
Aerial view, taken from an airplane, overlooking the streets, houses, stores, trees and railroad cars.
