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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.
Shot Tower Interior
1920
View from the top of the shot tower looking down the narrow tunnel towards the bottom.
Shot Tower Tunnel
1920
Entrance of the tunnel to the bottom of the shot tower. There is graffiti around the entrance.
Map of Helena on the Wisconsin River, Wisconsin Territory
1832
This map shows lot and block numbers, as well as the location of a shot tower, houses, stores, and barns. The map is oriented with the north to the left. The map also includes "front view of the sh...
Shot Tower Historic Marker
Tower Hill State Park, Hwy. C, S of Hwy. 14
