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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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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.
Residential Main Street
View down residential Main Street. Horse-drawn carriages and automobiles pass the First Congregational Church, a building with a colonnaded entrance and clock tower built around 1765.
Main Street
View of Main Street, looking north. A horse and carriage crosses the street near parked automobiles.
Lower Main Street
View down Lower Main Street featuring shops, a horse and carriage, automobiles, and trolley tracks.
The Pilgrim Maiden
Statue of a young girl, "The Pilgrim Maiden," in a garden setting. The statue was presented by the National Society of New England Women in 1924. Copyright by Henry H. Kitson, sculptor.
Post Office Square
View of the town center with shops, a church, and a horse and wagons.
Sunken Road
A man steers a horse-drawn carriage down a sunken dirt road in a rural setting. Dwellings stand at right.