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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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Sid Boyum Ice Fishing
1960
Sid Boyum ice fishing on a lake. He is sitting on a chair near an ice fishing hut. On the left a car is parked with the trunk open. Other ice fishing huts and cars are in the far distance.
Irving Brown in an Ice Boat
View across ice towards a man identified as Irving Brown sitting in an ice boat on a lake. Large houses are in the background along the shoreline.
Ice Shanty on Sturgeon Bay
1898
A boy dressed in knickers clears the ice in preparation to fish next to his family's ice shanty.
Young Boy in Blizzard
March 8, 1961
Winter scene with close-up shot of a young boy in hat and scarf, covered in snow.
First Light
1956
Sunrise after an ice storm, showing the light gleaming on the silhouette of the trees and chicken wire fence.
Ice Fishing in Wisconsin
circa 1950-1959
Shoreline view of people and cars gathered near a frozen lake. A few cars and ice fishing shelters are visible in the background.
