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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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Fighting the Fire
September 19, 1959
View towards a firefighter standing with his back to the camera as he is aiming a fire hose towards the flames.
The American Fireman Facing the Enemy
1858
A fire fighter stands over a fire as he trains his hose on the flames. This depicts the close proximity to the fire fire fighters were required to work before steam-powered pumpers became standard...
Fire Company Competition
1908
Formal portrait of the Lake Mills Fire Company preparing for a race in which volunteer companies in harness pulled their fire hose carts. Ralph Engsberg, whose family donated the photograph to the...
The Conklin Fire
1915
Fire fighters standing amid smoking timbers aim their hoses to douse the flames.
Championship Hose Team
1905
Young men on a championship hose team wear uniforms while pulling a cart along a road.
Fire Company Competition
June 1908
Members of the Lake Mills fire company pull the hose cart during a firemen's competition.
