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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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Shawtown Bridge
circa 1910-1919
View looking down the Shawtown Bridge. Caption reads: "Shawtown Bridge, Eau Claire, Wis."
C.M. & St. Paul Ry. Bridge at Shawtown
1910
Color enhanced photographic view of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul steel truss railroad bridge over the Chippewa River at Shawtown, near Half Moon Lake. The Daniel Shaw & Co. lumber company f...
Chippewa River at Shawtown
1900
Colorized photograph of the Chippewa River. Caption reads: "Chippewa River at Shawtown, Eau Claire, Wis."
Eau Claire River
1910
Color photograph of the Eau Claire river, with a railroad bridge in the distance. Caption reads: "Eau Claire River, Eau Claire, Wis."
Grand Avenue Bridge
1910
View across river towards a crowd lining the steel truss Grand Avenue Bridge over the Chippewa River. A few rowboats and canoes are on the river. Caption reads: "Grand Avenue Bridge, Eau Claire, Wis."
Grand Avenue Bridge
1912
Black and white photographic postcard view of the Grand Avenue bridge across the Chippewa river, looking through the trusses along the streetcar tracks. Caption reads: "Grand Avenue Bridge, Eau Cla...
