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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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Street Scene
View down a street featuring stores and small businesses with signs written in Spanish. On the left corner, Eduardo Cruz' department store can be seen, built in 1913 and established in 1894. A dru...
Main Street, Looking North from Davenport Street
1944
View of intersection with pedestrians crossing the street in the town central business district. Businesses include three drugstores, a hotel, and a clothing store.
Downtown Street Scene
View of downtown looking toward Hotel de Francia. The city hall, built in 1884, is at right.
Street Scene
after 1918
View of storefronts lining a town street. A brick building housing City Drug Store and Tom W. Crutcher & Co. General Insurance bears a date of 1918.
Narrow Town Street Scene
View down a narrow town street lined with buildings, and on the street automobiles and a horse-drawn wagon. A man walks near a clothing store on the left.
Business Section
View of the downtown business section crowded with automobiles and pedestrians. A department store on the right is labeled, "Wigwam Block 1900."
