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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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Scots Pine
1979
A specimen of Pinus sylvestris, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin, standing in the Cooksville Cemetery. Smaller trees and other flowers are growing among the headstones.
White Oak
1979
A specimen of Quercus alba, judged to be the largest of its species in Wisconsin, standing alone in a pasture on a sunny summer day.
Basswood
1979
A specimen of Tilia americana (Linden), judged in 1975 to be the largest of its species in Wisconsin, standing in a snowy landscape with smaller trees in the background.
Austrian Pine
1979
A specimen of Pinus nigra, judged to be the second largest of its type in Wisconsin, standing beside a house at 302 N. Wisconsin Street. Three young conifer trees have been planted in the lawn.
Allison and Hoffmann
1979
R. Bruce Allison, left, and B. Wolfgang Hoffman posing in front of the massive trunk of a tree. Allison, an arborist, is the author, and Hoffmann the photographer, of the 1980 book, Wisconsin's Cha...
Common Pear
1979
A specimen of Pyrus communis, judged to be the second largest of its type in Wisconsin, growing among smaller trees and shrubs at the edge of a cultivated field along North Wauwautosa Road.
