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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.
Downtown Businesses on Main Street
1915
View of several downtown businesses, including a drugstore advertising "Patent Medicines and Cigars".
Corner Drugstore
1940
View from cobblestone street of a man standing next to a police officer at the corner of Third and Oak Streets, in front of the Corner Drugstore. A horse-drawn milk wagon with rubber tires is parke...
Union Street
View of the businesses on Union Street, notably J.P. Dennett's Drug Store, located on the far right corner.
Corner of Oak and Third Streets
1930
View down street of cars and trucks parked along Third Street in this view looking East across Oak Street. The First National Bank, left, is diagonally across the intersection from the Bank of Bara...
