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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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Fat Man's Misery
1950
Text on reverse reads: "Fat Man's Misery. Through much of Coldwater Canyon the rock walls are very high and the passage between them is very narrow. The narrowest point is called Fat man's Misery f...
Excursion Boat on the Wisconsin River
July 13, 1939
Text on front reads: "The River from Cold Water Canyon Entrance, Dells of the Wisconsin River." An excursion boat seen from entrance to Cold Water Canyon. Rock formations and trees line the shore.
Cold Water Canyon
1920
Text on front reads: "In Cold Water Canyon, Dells of the Wisconsin." Steps and a path next to a stream in Cold Water Canyon. The scene is fully wooded and there are plants with red flowers.
Fat Man's Misery
circa 1890-1899
Fat Man's Misery, the narrow defile in Cold Water Canyon.
Alligator Rocks
1907
Text on front reads: "Alligator Rocks, Dells of The Wisconsin River." Rock formations that resemble alligators on the shores of the tree-lined Wisconsin River.
Lost Canyon
July 28, 1980
Text on reverse reads: "Lost Canyon, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin." Tourists ride in a modern day horse-drawn buggy through Lost Canyon. Rock formations tower overhead.
