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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.
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Old Mission Church
1900
Interior of the Congregational Church, a.k.a. Old Mission Church. The interior walls are covered with cedar trees.
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
1910
People gathered around picket fence in front of a decorated St. Joseph's Catholic Church in La Pointe on Madeline Island.
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
1910
The interior of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. It was built in 1841 by Father Frederick Baraga (later Bishop), who established his mission in 1835. A small log church was commenced the same year. La...
Old Mission Congregational Church
1916
Illustration of the Old Mission Congregational Church. The church was built in 1832 for a mission founded by Frederick Ayer in 1830. It is said to be the oldest Protestant religious building in Wis...
Interior of Congregational Church
1913
Interior of Congregational Church located on the Mission grounds at La Pointe. Shows the walls covered with vegetation, and pews and an altar.
The Evangelical United Lutheran Church
View towrd the altar and pipe organ at Evangelical United Lutheran Church. The walls and ceiling of the church are decorated with interlocking pointed arches and quatrefoils, hallmarks of Gothic Re...
