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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.
Street Car
Men and a boy pose near a man driving a mule-drawn street car. Caption reads: "Street Car. Matamoros, Mex."
Fire Department Carts With Huge Water Barrels
Men steer mule-drawn Fire Department carts down a dirt road in Matamoros, Mexico. Several buildings stand in the background.
Ruins of Pecos Church
Two men, and three horses pulling a cart are in front of the ruins of Pecos Church. Caption reads: "Ruins of Pecos Church, near Pecos, New Mexico. Between Las Vegas and Albuquerque."
Early Electric Power Street Car
A group of men pose near an electric power street car first used in 1832. A mule is hitched to the streetcar. Caption reads: "Electric Power Street Car, Metamoros, Mexico."
Bank and Street Scene
View across street toward the bank. Near the bank is an automobile, pedestrians and a horse pulling a wagon.
Rapid Transit Car
1915
A group of men and a boy pose near the rapid transit car labeled, "Aileen" and "Hotel." Caption reads: "Rapid Transit Car, Washington, GA."
