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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.
East Water Street from Wisconsin Avenue
1885
Elevated view down East Water Street from Wisconsin Avenue, with buildings, people, and street traffic including horse-drawn vehicles and a horse-drawn streetcar.
West Water Street from Grand Avenue
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view of buildings and traffic on West Water Street, with horse-drawn vehicles and streetcars in foreground.
West Water Street from Grand Avenue
1885
Elevated view of buildings and street traffic.
Grand Avenue Traffic
1885
View looking up Grand Avenue from 9th Street toward two horse-drawn wagons and a horse-drawn streetcar on the tree-lined street. The wagon on the right is carrying firewood.
Iron Block Building
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view of building on corner in downtown area. There are horse-drawn vehicles in the street, and pedestrians on the sidewalk and crossing the street.
East Water Street
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view of street traffic and buildings on East Water Street.
