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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 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.
Newhall House Fire
January 9, 1883
A large crowd is on the street surrounding the burning building. Fire fighters are struggling with horses pulling the fire engine, and on the left a group of fire fighters have a sheet to catch fa...
Forest Fire
View of a forest fire taken from an adjoining field. A fence separates the field from the burning trees.
En Route on Stagecoach
February 1855
Engraved image from Harper's New Monthly Magazine showing people riding in a stagecoach pulled by two horses.
Pilgrims of the Plains
1871
Wood engraving of pioneer men, one of whom is playing a violin, surrounded by covered wagons.
Lead-Mining Furnace
1853
Engraved exterior view of a lead mining furnace. A man sits in a horse-drawn wagon at the left of the building.
Old Dominion Farm Wagons Catalog Cover
1911
Cover of an advertising catalog for farm wagons from International Harvester of Canada. Features a color illustration of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon through the woods.
