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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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Peshtigo Company Sawmill
1890
View of the Peshtigo Company sawmill including the old wooden dam in the foreground. There are logs in the water on the left.
R. Stephenson & Co. Mill
July 30, 1865
An exterior view across water of Robert Stephenson & Company Mill, which was a steam mill.
Log Jam on Wisconsin River
1900
Two women and one man in street clothes and wearing hats posing among the logs of a large log jam on the Wisconsin River.
Sacking the Rapids
1890
Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin River.
River Drivers
1895
Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River.
Goar and Stinson Log Driving Crew
1902
The Goar and Stinson log driving crew on the Clam River.
