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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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Planting Trees
1935
A large crew of men are bending to their work of planting seedling trees into furrows. Each man is carrying a spade-like tool with a long handle, and a box with a handle. On the reverse of the phot...
Telephone Linemen
1935
A man with a hammer is working at the top of a telephone pole as a second man is watching from the ground. There is a third man near a man on another pole in the background. Snow is on the ground. ...
River Improvement
June 1936
Elevated view of a man, on the left, approaching three youths working on the Thunder River. One of the youths is holding a bucket while the others, standing in shallow water, are working with shove...
Trout
1935
An unidentified man wearing bib overalls is posing on a pier holding a large trout. On the reverse of the photograph is written: "An 8½ lb. trout taken from Wisconsin waters."
Vandrieul
Outdoor view of a group of a large group of people gathered along a trench. Snow is on the ground, and buildings are in the background. Several of the men are holding shovels. Envelope labeled "Van...
Tiger Muskie
1935
An unidentified man standing on a lawn is holding a 48 pound muskie by a wood handled hook. There is a lake in the background, and on the right, the rustic framing and rail of a porch. The man is w...
