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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.
Plan of the Canal Termination on Portsmouth Point
1833
Increase Lapham's plan for the canal terminus on Portsmouth Point at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers.
Geological Profile from the Sandusky Plains to Portsmouth
December 22, 1830
Increase Lapham's drawing of the geological profile between the Sandusky plains and Portsmouth, Ohio.
A Geological Profile Extending from Utica to Knob Creek
1828
Drawing by Increase Lapham showing the geological profile of the land between Utica and Knob Creek, Kentucky at a scale of 1/2 inch to a mile.
Increase A. Lapham Speech
February 1876
The cover page of a speech handwritten by Increase Lapham titled: "On the Law of Embryonic Development Showing that it is the Same in Plants as in Animals."
