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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.
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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.
Downtown Street Scene
View of a downtown street featuring cable cars, horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, and storefronts. National Hotel, built in 1855, stands on the street corner at left.
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:...
Lower Main Street
View down Lower Main Street featuring shops, a horse and carriage, automobiles, and trolley tracks.
Street Scene with Trolley Car
circa 1910
Street scene featuring automobiles and a trolley car. The street is lined with pedestrians and storefronts.
Shopping District
Pedestrians cross the street in front of cable cars and horse-drawn carriages at the intersection of Fifth and Hampshire Streets.
