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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.
Firetruck Amid Debris
June 12, 1899
A firetruck with its hose hanging into the water is surrounded by debris and other wreckage left from a tornado.
Smoldering Foundation of Brick Building
June 12, 1899
The still smoldering foundation of a burned brick building in the wake of a tornado that swept through the town. More debris can be seen in the background.
Group Clearing Debris
June 12, 1899
A man works to clear debris in the aftermath of a tornado. Other men, women and children are gathered nearby.
Growd Gathered Around Debris
June 12, 1899
A crowd gathers amid debris left from the aftermath of a tornado. Trees have been stripped of their limbs and bark, and houses have been flattened by the natural disaster.
Tornado Debris
June 12, 1899
Debris left after tornado. A portion of a roof from a collapsed building lies on top of the debris, including the wheels of a carriage or cart.
Debris Field
June 12, 1899
Field of debris left in the wake of a tornado. A crowd of people are observing the destruction from a high vantage point.
