Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
| 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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| Learn how to access the extensive microfilm collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Learn about our local government records holdings and how to access them. |
| Learn about our Mass Communications History collections and how to access them. |
| Search the Feature Film Database |
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| Learn how to access the archival collections of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. |
| Oral Histories or 22 Holocaust survivors and two American witnesses |
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| Explore this online oral history collection to hear firsthand accounts from Holocaust survivors who settled in Wisconsin. |
| See an overview of the Society's Social Action holdings. |
| See an overview of the Society's North American History Collection. |
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| Lean how to access incorporation papers and charter documents for thousands of Wisconsin corporations. |
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| See fees and registration information for the Wisconsin Historic Preservation Database (WHPD). |
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