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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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Winter Logging on Rice Lake
View across water towards logs floating along the lake. Several buildings, including a water tower and a silo, are on the opposite shoreline.
Driving Crew at Hardwood Mill
1900
View of several men standing and kneeling in front of mill buildings. There are logs floating near the sluice gate.
Above Long Lake Dam
Exterior view down slope of several buildings. A sluice gate is partially visible, with several logs nearby.
Sea Caves
1920
View across water towards three men and a woman posing while standing in a wooden boat in a sea cave in the Apostle Islands. Rock formations and other sea caves are on the left, and plants are grow...
Blue Heron Rookery — Long Lake
View of several bare trees, some of which have nests in them.
Boats and Barges On the Mississippi
1943
View across railroad tracks along the shorline of the Mississippi River towards the stern wheeled steamboat General Allen towing barges upriver at LaCrosse. Dark smoke is pouring from the two stack...
