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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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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.
Blockhouse and Dugout
1918
View across snow of a soldier with a rifle standing near a timber and sandbag constructed blockhouse. In the distance is a Russian town. The most prominent structures appear to be churches with oni...
Blockhouse in the Snow
1918
An eight-man blockhouse fortification in the snow, with a built-up wall of logs surrounding it. Soldiers inside the fortification are looking out of some of the windows. The blockhouse was used to ...
Soldiers near Blockhouse and Dugout
1918
View across snow of three soldiers standing in front of a blockhouse that has a tall wooden fence along the exterior. The man on the left is armed with a rifle and the soldier on the right is weari...
Log Blockhouse, Under Construction
1918
A log blockhouse under construction to support the Allied Intervention in Northern Russia. The fortification is surrounded by a forested area covered in snow.
Barbed Wire Fence and Blockhouse
1918
Two timber constructed blockhouses in the snow behind a barbed wire fence.
Dugout Under Construction
1918
A dugout under construction, showing the timber frame and planks of wood over the top. On the left of the dugout is a large pile of timbers covered with snow.
