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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 Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Fire Fighters with Hose
1910
Fire fighters on the ground spraying water from a fire hose.
Fire Fighters on Ladders
1910
Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building.
Fire Fighters in Street with Fire Hoses
A long line of fire fighters in the street are aiming fire hoses at a building. Coils of hoses cover the street.
Fire Fighters Putting Out Fire
Fire fighters on the street aiming fire hoses at a fire in a collapsing building. Smoke envelopes most of the fire and rubble. The wall of the building has fire in each of the windows.
Fire Fighters in Alley
Seven fire fighters are in an alley putting out a fire in a building. Three of the fire fighters are running with a fire hose, while two other men hold the end and spray the water towards the build...
