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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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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.
Main Street
Main street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Business sign reads: "The Adell Cafe."
Afton Main Street
View across unpaved road toward buildings. Business signs read: "Dawson Hotel" and "Afton Furniture Co."
Main Street
Main street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric power lines hang over the street. Business signs read: "Case & Hudelson Furniture and Stoves" "Ada Hardware" "Peter's...
View of Main Street
1905
Main street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric lights hang over the street. Business signs read: "Madox Drug" "Guest Bros." and "Ada Hardware Co. Furniture and Unde...
Street Scene
1890
Horse-drawn vehicles are parked along the roadside and pedestrians are walking and riding bicycles on the unpaved street. Business signs read: "Noah's Ark" and "Conlon Mercantile Co." Caption reads...
Street Scene
1905
Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts, an electric cable car and pedestrians. Electric power lines hang over the street. Business signs read: "First National Bank," "Brown Sisters Millin...
