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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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Voyageurs in Camp for the Night
March 1892
Engraving of voyageurs gathered around a fire at their camp.
A Fur Trader in the Council Tepee
February 1892
Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee.
Illustration of the DuCharme House
1890
A drawing of the DuCharme/Grignon house and fur-trading post as it appeared shortly before being razed in about 1892.
In a Stiff Current
March 1892
Three men are dragging their canoe upriver through a strong current. In the background other men are standing on the far river bank near canoes pulled up on the shore.
Treaty Drawing
A drawing representing the first treaty between the Indians and the original 13 states.
Flatboat on the Mississippi
Drawing of a flatboat, possibly a part of the fur trade, navigating the Mississippi River. The flatboat is carrying barrels of unidentified goods, and there are six men on board.
