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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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Voyageurs in Camp for the Night
March 1892
Engraving of voyageurs gathered around a fire at their camp.
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.
In a Stiff Current
March 1892
Three men are dragging their canoe upriver through a strong current. In the background other men are standing on the far river bank near canoes pulled up on the shore.
En Route on Stagecoach
February 1855
Engraved image from Harper's New Monthly Magazine showing people riding in a stagecoach pulled by two horses.
Washerwomen of Etretat
1883
Engraving of a woman carrying a bundle of clothing and standing with her back to the sea. Behind her other women are in the process of doing wash in the water.
Duck Shooting on Lake Winnebago Near Fond du Lac, Wis.
1858
Engraved print of four men and a dog in a boat on Lake Winnebago. Two of the men are in the center of the boat holding hunting rifles, while one man is standing at the front with a paddle, and anot...
