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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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Machine Gun Emplacement
1918
A log constructed blockhouse for machine gun emplacement surrounded by trees. In front of the fortification are four men posed standing. They are possibly soldiers out of uniform, one of which appe...
Camouflaged Machine Gun Emplacement
1918
Two men stand behind a heavily camouflaged machine gun emplacement in a forested area. On the far right a uniformed solider is sitting up in a tree.
Barbed Wire Fence and Blockhouse
1918
Two timber constructed blockhouses in the snow behind a barbed wire fence.
Barbed Wire Fence and Blockhouse
1918
View across snow and through barbed wire fence towards a timber constructed blockhouse. More buildings and a forested area are in the far background.
Blockhouse, Under Construction
1918
View across snow and barbed wire fence of a group of soldiers constructing a log blockhouse.
Barbed Wire Installation
1918
Three soldiers installing barbed wire as a defense against Bolshevik forces.
