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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.
Mataafa Freighter
Bow side view of the screw bulk freighter, Mataafa, underway. Originally named Pennsylvania.
The "Carl D. Bradley"
A bow view of the screw bulk freighter, "Carl D. Bradley," underway. Black smoke is pouring from smokestack.
Freighters on Menomonee River
1910
Elevated view of freighters lined up along the river. Caption reads: "Freighters, Menomonee River, Milwaukee, Wis."
The Freighter "Magna"
The freighter "Magna" in shipyard's icy waters with three tugboats in the foreground.
The Coal Ship "J.R. Sensibar"
May 12, 1959
Aerial view of a large ship with a considerable amount of dark smoke coming from the rear. The ship appears to be heading toward a large field of coal built out into the water. Caption reads: "The ...
Kewaunee Harbor Entrance
January 7, 1958
View across water to ship moored at a dock. Smoke is coming out of the smokestack. Industrial buildings are across the water on the right.
