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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.
Lakefront Landscape
August 1852
Pencil drawing of Lake Michigan shoreline in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A few trees frame the arc of the shore and steamboats are visible along the distant shore.
First Lake Dane County
August 1852
Pencil drawing of trees around the shore of First Lake in Dane County, Wisconsin from across a field.
River from Fort Snelling
October 1852
Landscape view of the river looking downstream from Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory. An expanse of placid river water fills the center of the drawing and rolling lightly-wooded hillsides rise on...
Courthouse and Mountains
1852
Landscape featuring view of Pearisburg, Virginia with a prominent courthouse surrounded by fields and mountains.
Burr Oaks
August 1852
Pencil drawing of Burr Oaks in the oak savanna setting of Madison, Wisconsin.