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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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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.
Lake Terraces
1850
Elevated view of the Lake Superior shoreline, with terraces leading to the beach. A canoe is on the shoreline.
Island of St. Ignace
1850
Pastoral scene depicting a small bay on the Island of St. Ignace in Lake Superior with canoes on the rocky beach, two men conversing on a blanket in the foreground, and a log house built by the Mon...
Pictured Rocks, Lake Superior
1821
Engraving of the Pictured Rocks shoreline viewed from Lake Superior.
Four Legs Village, Entrance To Winnebago Lake
1856
Lithographic view of Four Legs Village at the outlet of Lake Winnebago. There are is a person in a canoe on the river and a large tree in the foreground. Small dwellings are on the opposite shoreli...
