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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
Edison In His Workshop
August 2, 1879
A drawing of Thomas Edison seated at a desk working on an experiment. Caption at bottom reads: "Edison In His Workshop."
The First Louisiana Native Guards
February 28, 1863
The First Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards disembarking at Fort Macomb, Louisiana. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally within the city limits of New Orleans, Lo...
Immigrants at Ellis Island
1900
A group of immigrants, both children and adults, who have just arrived at Ellis Island.
This Reminds Me of a Little Joke
September 17, 1864
A political cartoon of President Abraham Lincoln holding a tiny General George McClellan in the palm of his hand. McClellan is carrying a spade. Lincoln is saying: "This reminds me of a little joke...
Rebel Prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois
April 5, 1862
Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks.
Government Snagboat
November 2, 1889
Engraved view of a government snagboat removing obstructions from the channel of a western river.
