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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.
Attribution
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.
Forest Rangers in Charred Forest
Forest rangers look over charred ruins of timber in a forest where "Smokey," a black bear cub was found suffering from third degree burns.
Fire Lookout Station
Fire lookout station in Northern Wisconsin forest next to tall trees.
Smokey Poster Design #2
1944
Poster design of Clarke-McNary Forest Protection Program depicting Smokey Bear pouring water on a campfire.
Forest Fire
View of a forest fire taken from an adjoining field. A fence separates the field from the burning trees.
Flambeau State Forest
Three men are sitting at the base of a large tree at Flambeau State Forest.
