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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.
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum
Group portrait of the girls living at Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, established in 1817 as the Roman Catholic Benevolent Society. The girls gather around a central monument.
Statue of Man on Rock
Bronze statue of Elbert Hubbard, the Arts and Crafts colony founder on a rock with a pipe in his hand.
Monument at City Center
View of Masonic Park featuring the Erie Canal and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, dedicated in 1909. The Empire House can be seen at left, constructed in 1845 by John L. Tomlinson. On the right ...
Indian Council House and Statue
Exterior of the Indian Council House, erected about 1765, and a statue of Mary Jemison. Dedicated in 1910 by William Pryor Letchworth, the statue commemorates "the white woman of the Genesee," nam...
Public Tomb, Chester, Vermont
View of a public tomb, built in 1850, outside a cemetery. A mounted canon and Civil War Soldiers Monument can be seen nearby.
