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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.
Central Square
1910
View toward street where horses and buggies are filling the central square, waiting for the arrival of the trolley car. Caption reads: "Central Square, Gorham, ME. Waiting for the cars to come in."
Crowd Watching Elephant Parade
1910
A crowd watches a parade of people riding elephants down the street. A cable car and horse-drawn carts are nearby. Caption reads: "N.E. Cor. Square, Oskaloosa, Iowa."
Main Street
Elevated view of Main Street showing tall buildings, cars, pedestrians trolleys and advertising signs.
State Street
1910
Elevated view looking down State Street in downtown, featuring cars, trolleys, storefronts, large buildings, and pedestrians.
Grand Avenue
Street level view of Grand Avenue showing a trolley, a crosswalk, crowded sidewalks and tall buildings.
Main Street
Elevated view of Main Street. City scene showing rows of parked cars, tall buildings, pedestrians, trolleys and advertising signs.
