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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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Pulpwood
1936
View from river of a machine/crane moving bundles of pulpwood to be made into paper.
Logging; McKenna Sawmill
1890
View from hill of the McKenna Sawmill, surrounded by stacks of lumber.
Lumber Camp Employees and Lumber
Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company Camp 15. Lumberjacks posed atop a sled load of logs, scaled at 13,562 board feet of lumber.
Holt's Mill
1856
Large piles of logs waiting to be processed into lumber sit next to the Oconto River. In the background stand what appear to be piles of cut lumber. Caption reads: "Holt's Landing, Oconto, Wis."
Arpin Lumber Co. Sawmill
1890
90,000 feet of pine logs floating in the storage/sorting pond at the Arpin Lumber Company sawmill. The sawmill and other buildings are in the background. On the right a man or young boy stands on a...
Emerson Bros. Sawmill
1908
Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground.
