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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
Office Force and Foremen
March 12, 1914
The office force and foremen posing before the south facade of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam.
Section of Turbine at Power Dam
February 28, 1914
Sections of turbines inside the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam.
Switchboard in Power House at Power Dam
August 4, 1914
An interior view of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam showing the switchboard.
Lock at Power Dam
March 11, 1914
Looking upstream (north) through the lock at the Prairie du Sac dam. The power house is on the left. The flow of the river has been diverted through the lock and the power house.
Generators in Power House
1915
A man is standing on a staircase overlooking an operating generator in the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam.
Generators in Power House at Power Dam
November 3, 1914
Interior view of the power house with the Allis-Chalmers generators installed.
