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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.
View Down Main Street
1910
Main Street lined with street lights. Several horse-drawn carts are carrying hay down the street.
Masonic Building Exterior
1911
View from street toward the Masonic building (erected 1876). Business signs read: (obscured) "Millinery," "W.F. Terrell," "M.J. Eves Real Estate & Insuranc,e" "W.B. Wallace Real Estate" and "The Hub."
Main Street
Elevated view of Main Street showing tall buildings, cars, pedestrians trolleys and advertising signs.
Main Street
View down Main Street including light traffic and shop fronts in large brick buildings.
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...
Main Street
View down Main Street. Features storefronts and people of the town on the sidewalks. A few cars are parked at either side of the street. In the background is a large hill.
