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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 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.
Prosperous Town in Good Farming Country
July 1930
Downtown Aurora, a "prosperous town in good farming country," seen from the street.
River Grove Meat Market
1921
View from across street of two men in butchers' aprons standing outside the River Grove Meat Market storefront.
Hinsdale Storefronts
1920
View from across street of two men standing in the storefronts of, on the left, the Hinsdale Provision Co. and on the right, the Robberts Fancy Grocery. There is a child looking out of a second sto...
Children with Lecturer
1924
At Louisiana State University, an instructor lectures a group of children on agriculture using charts prepared by International Harvester Company. The lecturer is pointing to a chart with the title...
Street Musician with Violin and Dog
1915
A street musician named Frank Ritter playing violin on a city sidewalk (possibly in Chicago), with a dog leashed to his belt. A tin cup is attached to the violin.
Boy Pushing Baby Carriage along Street
Dirty and disheveled boy with no shoes standing in the street with a baby carriage.
