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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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Camp on the Youghiogheny River
May 6, 1894
Setting up camp on a bank of the Youghiogheny River. William Turville holds a canvas bag of bedding, while Jessie hands her son Fredrik a satchel from the boat.
Three Boys in a Boat
May 6, 1894
Three boys in a crude boat on the Monongahela River.
Two Doves Houseboat
May 7, 1894
View of a houseboat named "Two Doves" on the Ohio River.
Man in a Boat Hauling Nitroglycerin
May 8, 1894
A man transports nitroglycerin in a boat which has a red danger flag at the bow (unseen against the dark background).
Cultivated Hillside
May 8, 1894
View from the Ohio River of cultivated hillsides and houses near the shoreline.
