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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 Conklin Fire
1915
Fire fighters standing amid smoking timbers aim their hoses to douse the flames.
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...
Barn Fire
Spectators watch at night as intense flames burn a barn down to its stone foundation.
Fire Hose Cart Racing Team
Fire hose cart racing team hitched to a fire hose cart and crouching in set position as if to begin a race. The men were probably firefighters.
Ruins of the Hotel Washington
February 18, 1996
Firefighters attempt to extinguish the blaze destroying the Hotel Washington. Most of the building has collapsed.
Fire Fighters Douse Flames Downtown
April 15, 1950
Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district.
