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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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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.
Illegal Snag Line
1942
Warden Kramer and his assistant in a boat removing an illegal snag line from the Wolf River.
Governor La Follette and Governor Horner on Fishing Trip
September 25, 1937
Governor Philip La Follette (Wisconsin) and Governor Henry Horner (Illinois) enjoy a laugh in the boat during a fishing trip.
Canal Lighthouse, Sturgeon Bay
1953
View across water towards the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse, with a group of people in a motorboat in the foreground.
Wisconsin Conservation Warden
Wisconsin wardens patrolling waters of Wisconsin in a canoe.
Governor's Fishing Expedition
September 25, 1937
Governor Philip Fox La Follette (center) together with Governors Horner (Illinois) and Kraschel (Iowa) pose in front of the fish they caught during a fishing expedition at Trout Lake.
Shoreline with Pier
Lake Lawn. Several boats are on the water with a man standing on his sailboat next to the dock. Trees run along the shoreline into the distance.
