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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 Streetcar
1910
Elevated view of a streetcar going down North Main Street. Raiche Drugstore sits on the right corner.
Main Street
View down Main Street featuring horse-drawn carriages, street cars, and storefronts. The first true non-railway bridge stands in the distance; the 'Free Bridge' spanned the Arkansas River from Main...
Street Scene
circa 1890
View down Main Street. Pedestrians gather near parked streetcars, horse-drawn carriages, and storefronts. Signs on buildings read: "Pfeifer," "Blass," and "M.M. Cohn & Co." Caption at bottom reads:...
Main Street
View from sidewalk on the right down a street, with horse-drawn wagons parked on the left and right curbs, and a streetcar in the center. A sign on the right over the sidewalk reads: "Bakery." A no...
Street Scene with Opera House
View features a dirt street, an opera house on the right, storefronts, horse-drawn vehicles, several pedestrians walking on the sidewalks bordering the streets. In the far background the street lea...
Main Street, Looking East from the Bridge
1905
View down of Main Street from along right-side curb. Horse-drawn vehicles are on the street, and pedestrians are on the sidewalks. Storefronts are on both sides of the street. Caption reads: "Main ...
