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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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Loggers with Pine Tree
Two men with a saw stand by a large pine tree recently cut down.
Lumber Sled
Horse-drawn lumber sled loaded with logs. Five lumbermen are standing on and near sled.
Capturing the Hodag
A staged scene depicting men poised with weapons pointed at a hodag, a mythical beast, who has attacked a child.
Riverboat With Lumberjacks
Five lumberjacks, one of whom is playing the fiddle, pose by a docked riverboat with a rowboat nearby.
Hardware Sales
December 19, 1962
Hilgendorf's Hardware store clerk showing a saw to a customer.
