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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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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.
Rice Lake Plant
1900
Elevated view of a lumber plant, with large stacks of lumber stacked around it. A lake is behind the plant.
Train with Lumber
View across field towards a train loaded with slatted lumber piled into train cars. Telephone poles are along the railroad tracks.
Piles of Lumber, Mill in Background
View along a boardwalk lined with tall stacks of lumber on both sides. Mill buildings are in the distance.
Rice Lake Lumber Company Base Camp — Long Lake Dam
View of a lumber camp, with several buildings in the background. A bridge spans a river near the dam site.
Winter Logging on Rice Lake
View across water towards logs floating along the lake. Several buildings, including a water tower and a silo, are on the opposite shoreline.
Lumber Piled on Train Cars and in Yard
View of a trainyard, with several carloads of lumber on the train. Men are standing on the lumber. Additionally, several large stacks of lumber are in the yard, and two men are standing near them.
