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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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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.
Aerial View of the Inn at Buck Hill Falls
Aerial view of the Inn at Buck Hill Falls, built in 1901. A curving road leads to the main building, and several smaller outbuildings are nearby.
Oil Field
An oil field in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where Edwin Drake constructed the first oil well in 1859.
Penn Light & Power Company
Interior view looking down from balcony of the Penn Light and Power Company, and what appear to be enormous generators or turbines.
Bangor Slate Quarry
Cables run across the Bangor Slate Quarry, a major world center for slate. The slate industry was begun in Bangor by Robert M. Jones in 1848.
Slate Quarry Landing
A slate quarry landing is shown in Bangor, a major world center for slate. The slate industry was begun in Bangor by Robert M. Jones in 1848.
Bethlehem Steel Company
The first rails of puddled iron were rolled on Bethlehem Steel Company's rolling mill September 26th, 1863.
