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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 Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Conklin Fire
June 17, 1915
Several men try to extinquish a fire in an ice house, which is known as the Conklin Fire.
The American Fireman Facing the Enemy
1858
A fire fighter stands over a fire as he trains his hose on the flames. This depicts the close proximity to the fire fire fighters were required to work before steam-powered pumpers became standard...
Building Fire
January 13, 1929
Flames light up the night as fire fighters hose down the Jeffery Brothers Automobile Preparing and Storage building at 621 University Avenue in an attempt to douse the fire, while spectators watch.
Fighting the Fire
September 19, 1959
View towards a firefighter standing with his back to the camera as he is aiming a fire hose towards the flames.
Fire Fighter at Work
1934
Fire chief at work. He is also a student earning his way through the University of Wisconsin.
Railroad Freight Wagons
1913
View down platform between two railroad trains of men unloading freight onto wagons from a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway freight car at the Madison depot.
