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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.
The Missionary
1892
Photographic print of an engraved image showing a robed missionary standing in a birch bark canoe paddled by four Native Americans and another man who appears to be a fur trader.
Voyageur with Tumpline
1892
Illustration of "Voyageur with Tumpline". A tumpline is a strap attached at both ends to a load and used to carry the object by placing the strap over the top of the head.
Trout Fishing on Brule River
View from shoreline towards eight men trout fishing on the Brule River.
Voyageurs in Camp for the Night
March 1892
Engraving of voyageurs gathered around a fire at their camp.
North Shore of Lake Superior
April 1892
Drawing of the north shore of Lake Superior with cliffs and seagulls.
Gilmore's Mistake, Wolf River
1979
Two canoeists navigate the rapids, called Gilmore's Mistake, on the Wolf River. Rocks and foliage can be seen on the shore.
