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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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Ice-Covered Ship
January 1969
Spray from the lake has built up as thick ice on a ship, creating interesting shapes. A man is standing on the deck.
Snow Sculpture
1964
Snow drifting on Lake Winnebago seen through trees on the shoreline.
Grab a Line
January 1963
A man on a ship is tossing a coiled rope to two men below on the wharf. Ice encrusts the ship. Several other men are standing on the deck. Another ship and a gantry are in the background.
Cold Cream
January 1977
Close-up of a child in a knitted balaclava and mittens licking an ice cream cone.
January Frosting
1960
Rock formation, Devil's Doorway, in the snow. In the background Devil's Lake is frozen and bluffs are in the background.
Frosting
1956
Snow is mounded on top of pilings on the edge of the Milwaukee River.
