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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 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.
Chase Lumber Company Fire
February 14, 1947
The aftermath of a blazing fire involving five railroad cars of building materials at the F.L. Chase Lumber Company's main building in DeForest.
Aerial View of DeForest
October 1928
Aerial view of DeForest including residences and the surrounding countryside.
Windsor Fire
June 12, 1948
DeForest Fire Chief W.E. Dahl inspecting the engine of the 1932 fire truck, which malfunctioned two blocks from the fire at the lumber and appliance building of the Central Wisconsin Supply Company...
Doyon Lumber Co. Fire
May 11, 1947
Firemen at the scene of the Doyon Lumber Company fire, 638 West Mifflin Street. The Fiore coal silos are visible in the background.
DeForest High School Basketball Team
January 18, 1956
Group portrait of the DeForest High School Basketball team, one of five teams tied for second place in the Madison Suburban High League race.
1919 Ladder Fire Truck
May 13, 1947
1919 ladder fire truck at Fire Station No. 7, 2410 Monroe Street. Fire fighters (L to R), Capt. Arthur Emerson, Joseph Roberts, Harold Klein, Arthur Halverson, and Daryl Griffin.
