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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.
Afton Main Street
View across unpaved road toward buildings. Business signs read: "Dawson Hotel" and "Afton Furniture Co."
Palace Hotel
View across intersection toward the Palace Hotel, with pedestrians and horse-drawn horses wagons in front.
Street Scene
View down a street lined with businesses and full of horse-drawn carts. Business signs read: "Hooker-Hendrix Hardware Co.," "Light & Power," "Norman Hotel," "Dr. McCollister Sanitarium Specialist" ...
Street Scene
View of a busy street, lined with businesses, pedestrians, automobiles and carts. Many business signs are obscured, but some read: "Hotel Lenox," "Thomason's Cafe," "Hotel Waverly," "J.C. Redfield ...
Street Scene
View from unpaved road toward houses down a side dirt road leading toward a beach in the background. A man stands on the porch of the house in the left foreground, and other people are on a porch f...