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| Discover Our Collection of Over 300 Years of U.S. Newspapers |
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| Newspaper Resources at the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Explore 25,000 pages of original documents about Wisconsin in the Civil War, including soldiers' letters, photos and battle summaries. |
| Discover the fascinating stories and historical significance of more than 200 of the Wisconsin Historical Museum's artifacts. |
| Begin your family history research with these tips for using census, birth, death and marriage records. |
| Original documents, publications, photographs and films related to Cyrus Hall McCormick and the International Harvester Company. |
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| Browse documents, photographs and films related to Cyrus Hall McCormick and the International Harvester Company, including more than 30,000 online items. |
| Online access to Wisconsin's heritage in sound |
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| Listen to stories and sounds of Wisconsin's past, including oral histories, radio programs, advertising, political speeches, and more. |
| Voices of Wisconsin Latina activists engaged in their communities |
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| Oral history interviews of Latinas in Wisconsin engaged in their communities to positively impact society |
| Explore our physical and digital collections of local and county histories for Wisconsin, the U.S. and Canada. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Collections |
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| Explore our collection of paintings, many of which can be viewed online. |
| Learn how to access and explore the Henry and Elizabeth Baird Papers. |
| We have over 200 original bird's-eye-view maps of Wisconsin cities and villages dating from the 1860s to the early 1900s. |
| See original maps from this Depression-era project that documented Wisconsin's land resources between 1929 and 1949. |
| These maps identify local landowners within each Wisconsin county and provide information about cultural and topographical features. |
| Digitally Reproduced Maps of Wisconsin and American History |
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| Features hundreds of digitally reproduced maps from rare books, manuscripts, magazines and journals covering all aspects of Wisconsin and American History. |
| Exquisite examples of significant maps related to New France and French Great Lakes exploration, early maps of Florida and Mexico, later maps of Wisconsin. |
| Access approximately 200 modern maps of basic cultural and geographical data about Wisconsin and its history. Perfect for teachers, students. |
| Original, meticulously detailed street-level maps for 325 Wisconsin communities, 1883-1930, originally used to determine a property's fire hazard. |
| U.S. General Land Office Surveyors' Field Notes and Plat Maps |
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| Hand-drawn township plat maps and surveyors field notes about tree cover, soils, streams, rock outcroppings, villages, trails and roads from 1833-1866. |
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