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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 Scene with Trolley Car
circa 1910
Street scene featuring automobiles and a trolley car. The street is lined with pedestrians and storefronts.
Lower Main Street
View down Lower Main Street featuring shops, a horse and carriage, automobiles, and trolley tracks.
Residential Street
View down a residential street lined with picket fences. An automobile and trolley car travel down the road. Published by H.C. Branch, Webster, Massachusetts.
Downtown Street Scene
View down street crowded with automobiles and pedestrians. Smoke is billowing from the top of a building on the right.
Street Scene
circa 1890
View down Main Street. Pedestrians gather near parked streetcars, horse-drawn carriages, and storefronts. Signs on buildings read: "Pfeifer," "Blass," and "M.M. Cohn & Co." Caption at bottom reads:...
Busy Commercial Center
View down a busy commercial downtown street featuring automobiles, cable cars, pedestrians, a restaurant, and the Hippodrome Theater which opened in 1914.
