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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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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.
Madeline Island Pleasure Boat
Two men standing in wooden rowboat along shore of Madeline Island. There are sailboats in the background. Behind them is a large rock just off the shoreline, with trees growing on the side and top.
Lizzie W. at Mission Dock
1900
Sailboat Lizzie W. at the Mission Dock. Captain Daniel Russell Angus, in the white sleeves, is at the tiller. The boat was named after Elizabeth Woods, the wife of Frederick Woods.
Sailboat "Alpha"
1900
Group of people on sailboat "Alpha" at dock on Madeline Island. Captain Daniel Angus is at the tiller.
"Plowboy" Approaching the Mission Dock
1904
View from shoreline of the steamboat "Plowboy" approaching the Mission Dock at La Pointe. The Plowboy was the first steam ferry to go to Madeline Island. The boat made regular runs between Ashland,...
On Lake Superior with Dog Team
1945
Mary L. Eldridge, Dick Eldridge, Barney Johnson, and two other people kneeling in front of dog sled on Lake Superior.
Kenneth T. White Family in their Sailboat
July 12, 1955
Jane and Kenneth White and their daughters, Sue (left), Kay, and Barbara, and the family dog, Perky, sailing in their lightning class sailboat on Lake Mendota.
