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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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Dr. E.A. Birge Reading Sun Machine in Car
Dr. Edward Ashael Birge reading a sun machine inside a car. In 1875 Dr. Birge first came to teach natural history at the University of Wisconsin, and remained part of the institution for the next 7...
Equipment at Trout Lake Station
1929
Dr. E.A. Birge's equipment at his Trout Lake Station laboratory.
Dr. Birge on Trout Lake
circa 1930-1939
Dr. Edward Ashael Birge paddling on a raft in Trout Lake. In 1875 Dr. Birge first came to teach natural history at the University of Wisconsin, and remained part of the institution for the next 75 ...
Edward A. Birge
1917
Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday with plankton trap in Lake Mendota. From album of photographs relating to the research in limnology conducted at Trout Lake, and elsewhere by Edward A. Birge, Univ...
Limnological Research on Ice
Dr. Edward Birge, March, and Professor Chancey Juday with the first mud thermometer on the ice.
Dr. Birge at Trout Lake
1930
Dr. Birge sitting in a boat, probably at Trout Lake. The outboard motor on the boat has been tilted out of the water. A wooded shoreline is in the distance.
