Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
| 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. |
| Follow online links to rare American Indian language primary documents, including early dictionaries, textbooks, spelling books and firsthand accounts. |
| 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. |
| The richest resource about Sen. William Proxmire's life and times. Unpublished papers fill over 200 boxes, more than 7,500 pages are available online. |
| Explore our physical and digital collections of more than 25,000 maps and atlases, which focus on Wisconsin, the Midwest, the U.S. and Canada. |
| Learn how to access and explore the McCormick-International Harvester Collection. |
| More than 2,000 feature articles totaling more than 30,000 pages are online. |
| Explore our physical and online collections of Civil War materials including Wisconsin regimental histories, maps, casualty lists, lettters and more. |
| Search this digital collection of 16,000 historical newspaper articles on notable Wisconsin people and communities. |
| Use the Wisconsin Name Index to browse obituaries, newspaper clippings and biographical book excerpts. |
| Explore our Visual Materials collection of nearly 3 million images in more than 6,000 collections. Over 80,000 images are available online. |
| Learn about the wide range of visual materials subjects available to view both online and in our Archives |
| The Society owns one of the nation's richest collections of Civil Rights movement records, including more than 100 manuscript collections on Freedom Summer |
| The Society’s museum collections include 110,000 historical objects and about 500,000 archaeological items that document the history of Wisconsin. |
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