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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Black River Flood
October 5, 1911
Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a flood in a residential neighborhood. A man is picking up pieces of wood in the road. Large piles of debris are piled up against tree and buildings. ...
Flood at Hatfield (above Black River Falls)
circa 1910-1919
Raging high water on the Black River. Caption reads: "Flood at Hatfield (above Black River Falls)."
Where City Once Stood - Business Section
1911
Photographic postcard view of the devastation after a flood in central Black River Falls. Caption reads: "Where City Once Stood - Business Section."
Scene on Black River
circa 1910-1919
Colorized postcard view of two bridges over the Black River. A boy is standing on the riverbank in the foreground. Caption reads: "Scene on Black River."
Power Station
1908
Colorized photographic postcard of an elevated view of the power station next to the river. A bridge is in the background. Caption reads: "Power Station, Black River Falls, Wis."
Flood at Black River Falls
October 6, 1911
View of Monsos Brothers Grocery & Crockery after most of the building was washed away by the flooding Black River. High, rushing water can be seen on the right. There is an ad for Lawrence Barrett ...
