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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.
J.A. Taylor Steamer #1
1905
Fire department steamer #1 fire engine, named after hotel proprietor J.A. Taylor.
Fire Truck on Country Road
1918
Four men dressed in fire fighting gear driving a fire truck on State Highway 47 near Appleton. The Wisconsin Highway Commission which published this photograph in its 1918 annual report wrote "goo...
Steam Fire Engine at Soldiers Home
May 19, 1887
Firefighters stand with steam fire engine in front of fire station at National Soldiers Home.
Fire Fighter at Work
1934
Fire chief at work. He is also a student earning his way through the University of Wisconsin.
Madison Fire Department
1870
E.W. Keyes Steam Fire Engine Company Number 1, Madison Fire Department, organized in 1866.
Fire Engine and Fire Fighters
1915
A small group of fire fighters fight an unseen fire with three fire hoses. Smoke obscures the fire, and on the right, a fire engine has smoke billowing from its steam engine.
