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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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Wisconsin Street East
March 19, 1914
Commercial district looking towards East Wisconsin Avenue from the roof of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurace home office at Van Buren Street. The Federal Building is on the left. Caption on the...
Wisconsin Avenue
March 29, 1913
East Wisconsin Avenue commercial district looking west from V. Van Buren Street. Landmarks left to right: Federal Building, Northwestern National Insurance (with gables), Wisconsin Gas Light Co. on...
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Building
May 25, 1902
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Building and surrounding commercial area on the northwest corner of Broadway and E. Michigan Streets. Caption on glass plate reads: "Old N.W.M. Ins. Co's Bldg."
Commercial District from Roof of Northwestern Mutual Building
September 12, 1919
Looking west from the roof of the Northwestern Mutual home office at E. Wisconsin Avenue and N. Van Buren Street. City Hall is on the right. Caption on glass plate reads: "View W. from N.W.M.L.I. C...
Downtown Commercial District
Elevated view of E. Wisconsin Avenue looking west from the roof of the Northwestern Mutual home office at the corner of Van Buren. The major landmark is the Federal Building, while the Pfister Hote...
Milwaukee Auditorium
September 19, 1915
Milwaukee Auditorium at N. 6th Street and W. Kilbourn Avenue.
