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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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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.
Ice on Old Man River
1961
People ice fishing on the frozen Mississippi River. Hills can be seen on the shoreline in the background.
Trout Fishing on the Brule
1949
A man wading and fishing in the Brule River. He is wearing waders, a plaid shirt, hat and creel, and has netted a fish. In the background is a forest and partly cloudy sky.
Out of Season
1976
A boy is riding his bicycle on the ice. A field and a line of trees are along the shoreline in the background.
Ice Fishing
1952
Aerial view of ice fishermen on the ice next to a lake. Their paths and footprints make an interesting pattern in the snow.
He's Got One
1950
A group of people are fishing on a shoreline of rocks and logs. One man with a bamboo fishing pole is pulling a fish from the water.
