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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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Accessing Collections
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.
Forest Fire
View of a forest fire taken from an adjoining field. A fence separates the field from the burning trees.
Burned Cutover Land
Charred stumps and cut trunks of trees in the foreground with unburned forest in the distance.
The Woods on Fire
Illustration of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon out of burning woodland.
Oxbow, Newbury
View across plains, with sparse trees. In the distance is a small body of water, with a forest and mountains in the distance.
Fire Lookout Station
Fire lookout station in Northern Wisconsin forest next to tall trees.
Birds Eye View [sic]
1910
Slightly elevated view of a town, looking down from a hill across a field, with railroad tracks curving from the right foreground to the left towards the town in the middle distance. Forests and hi...