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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.
Paul Bunyan Skidding Ahead of the Saws
Drawing of Paul Bunyan running with two oxen pulling a log that is being sawed by two other lumberjacks.
Paul Bunyan Carrying Babe
1925
Woodcut illustration of Paul Bunyan carrying his blue ox Babe, when Babe was a calf.
Paul Bunyan and Babe
Paul Bunyan walking with an axe over his shoulder and whistling. He is accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox who is carrying several people on his back.
Hauling Off Section 37
Drawing of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe, hauling off Section 37. Bunyan has an axe over his shoulder and holds a pipe.
Paul Bunyan, noted pioneer in land clearing
Dec 21, 1921
Vilas County News
Paul Bunyan Model at Wisconsin State Fair
August 11, 1962
Youngsters admiring a 10-foot high animated model of legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan at the Wisconsin State Fair.
