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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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Fire Boat
A fire boat is next to a dock with burning objects. Fire fighters on the boat are using high-powered hoses to put out a fire. Smoke and steam fill the background.
Fire Fighers with Hoses
Fire fighters spraying hoses upwards towards a building amid smoke. On the right are two men aiming water with a tall pump on wheels.
Fire Fighters with Hose
1910
Fire fighters on the ground spraying water from a fire hose.
Fire Fighters with Fire Hoses
1931
Small clusters of fire fighters work to put out a fire with fire hoses, which are aimed high at a building covered in smoke.
Fire Fighters in Street with Fire Hoses
A long line of fire fighters in the street are aiming fire hoses at a building. Coils of hoses cover the street.
Fire Fighters Putting Out Fire
Fire fighters on the street aiming fire hoses at a fire in a collapsing building. Smoke envelopes most of the fire and rubble. The wall of the building has fire in each of the windows.
