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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.
Fire at Fitzgibbons Building
August 28, 1948
Fire fighters applying water to the burning Fitzgibbons building downtown.
Windsor Fire
June 11, 1948
Donald Hanson, who discovered the fire at the lumber and appliance building of the Central Wisconsin Supply Company and turned in the alarm. The fire totally destroyed the building. A fireman with ...
Harold E. Stassen President Campaign Tour
March 6, 1948
Elevated view of Harold E. Stassen greeting a crowd of people during a campaign tour in Monroe.
Windsor Fire
June 11, 1948
The lumber and appliance building of the Central Wisconsin Supply Company is engulfed in flames, which totally destroyed the building.
Old Nora General Store Destroyed by Fire
March 21, 1960
Firemen douse the smoldering ruins of the Old Nora General Store.
Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street
November 28, 1948
Fire-charred apartment of Annie Simmons and her four children, at the rear of the tiny bedroom in which Florence Dinger and her three children died.
