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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.
Reuben Gold Thwaites Rowing the "Pilgrim"
May 9, 1894
Reuben Gold Thwaites rowing the skiff the "Pilgrim" on the Ohio River.
Three Boys in a Boat
May 6, 1894
Three boys in a crude boat on the Monongahela River.
Woman in a Rowboat
May 12, 1894
A woman rowing in a boat on the Ohio River. There is another boat on the shoreline behind her.
Jessie and Fred Thwaites
June 7, 1894
Jessie Thwaites poses next to two huge logs, upon which Fredrik stands. Behind them is the Saline River.
Jessie Turvill Thwaites Picking Flowers
August 1896
Jessie Turville Thwaites, wife of Reuben Gold Thwaites, picks wildflowers.