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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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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.
Interior of Lumber Mill
1900
Two men using sawing machinery to make boards inside "Big Mill."
Lumber Mill Machinery
circa 1900-1909
A room full of machinery in the "Big Lumber Mill."
Lumber Mill on Chippewa River
1900
View across Chippewa River of the Big Lumber Mill on the opposite bank.
Lumber Mill
1906
View from rocky shoreline of a lumber mill on the banks of the Chippewa River. Smoke is coming out from a smokestack.
Lumber Mill on Shoreline of Chippewa River
1907
Elevated view from steep shoreline opposite a lumber mill on the far shore of the Chippewa River, with a bluff rising above it to the right. Boulders are on the shoreline in the foreground.
Lumber Planing Mill
1899
Several wagon loads of lumber stand in the yard of a planing mill.
