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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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Accessing Collections
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.
World's Largest White Pine Tree
1945
Two men stand at the base of the White Pine tree reported in 1945 to be the largest in the world at 16.8' in circumference and 140.42' in height. Larger specimens have since been reported.
Forest Service Parade Vehicle
Costumed people pose on a decorated Forest Service parade vehicle.
General MacArthur White Pine
1946
A group of men and women posing at the base of an enormous white pine, named to honor the famous general. Several people are posing at the base of the tree. The tree was estimated to be about 400 y...
Forest Fire
View of a forest fire taken from an adjoining field. A fence separates the field from the burning trees.
Wisconsin Conservation Warden
Wisconsin Conservation Warden checking on beaver traps.
