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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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Log Running on the Chippewa River
1904
Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men are standing on the bridge.
Little Falls, Flambeau River
circa 1910-1919
Looking down the Flambeau River near Little Falls. There may be a logjam in the distance.
Footbridge near Brunet Falls
circa 1910-1919
Footbridge spanning the Chippewa River near Brunet Falls (now Cornell Falls)
Lumber Mill on Chippewa River
1900
View across Chippewa River of the Big Lumber Mill on the opposite bank.
Log Jam on the Chippewa River
circa 1900-1909
Large log jam on the Chippewa River. In the distance a group of men stand atop the jammed logs.
Railroad Log Car
circa 1910-1919
A railroad flatbed car loaded with logs and sitting on railroad tracks.
