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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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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.
Fox River Lock
August 3, 1962
Elevated view of the Guard Lock on the Fox River Canal, looking west from the Highway 55 bridge.
Boat in Canal
August 4, 1962
A boat in the Fox River Canal, headed up river. This particular lock, the Ripide Croche Lock, is located just north of Wrightstown.
Fox River Lock Tender
August 5, 1962
Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water out of the lock. In the background are ind...
Paper Mill
August 5, 1962
Exterior view of Riverside Paper Corporation mill. On the left is a road along a river, and on the right are railroad tracks along the mill. A sign in the foreground reads in part: "Keep Out / Priv...
Croplands
June 16, 1962
View of rolling croplands, framed by two tree branches in the foreground. There are farm buildings in the background.
Marathon Paper Corporation Factory
September 14, 1963
The Marathon Paper Corporation plant along the historic Fox River canal.
