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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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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.
Trade Room in the Hudson Bay Company's Fort
circa 1870-1879
View through a window of Indians conversing with traders. Caption reads: "Trade-Room [sic], Hudson Bay Company's Fort, In The Plain Country".
American Fur Companies Buildings
Lithograph view towards river of the American Fur Companies buildings and fenced enclosures, surrounded by hills and trees.
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.
Trappers Leaving Hunting Grounds
circa 1870-1879
Drawing of trappers on leaving their hunting grounds.
Fur Trading Post
A diorama depicting several people, including a small child, gather at a fur trading post in Juneau, Alaska.
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.
