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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.
Town Streets
Unpaved town streets with large wooden houses, horse-drawn carriages and a electric street light hanging above the streets.
Laurel House
Men and women stand outside the Laurel House as horse-drawn carriages drive past the building along a dirt road. The structure was built in 1852 by Peter Schutt.
Street Scene
View down a busy Bermuda street featuring shops and horse-drawn carriages. A large ship is docked at left.
Hotel Massasoit
Exterior of Hotel Massasoit, built in 1887. The wooden building features a long porch and balcony. To the left of the hotel, an automobile is parked.
The Ocean House Hotel
1878
Elevated view of the Ocean House hotel with men, women, and children posing in front of it. Another group of people are standing on the third story balcony. Two horse-drawn carriages are in the dir...
Street Scene
circa 1910
Horse-drawn carriages park outside Elmrose Hotel, built in 1889 as the Andrews Hotel and destroyed by fire in 1929.
