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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.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Chicago Skyline
View of the city skyline from a street corner. Automobiles are being driven down the street, and pedestrians are on the sidewalks.
Business Section
View of the downtown business section crowded with automobiles and pedestrians. A department store on the right is labeled, "Wigwam Block 1900."
Downtown Street Scene
View down center of a downtown street that is crowded with automobiles and pedestrians.
Large City Bridge
View uphill toward an automobile and a horse-drawn carriage driving down a city bridge while men and women are walking along the sidewalk on the right. Buildings are in the background.
Street Scene of the Business District
View down a street in a business district. Automobiles are parked at the curb under trees on the left. Along the street are storefronts and the Hotel Jefferson, built in 1913 with a Classical Reviv...
Busy Commercial Street Scene
View of a busy commercial street featuring automobiles, storefronts, and pedestrians.
