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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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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.
Village
1910
View across field towards a fenced village of elevated, thatched buildings.
Thatched Home on Poles
1910
A thatched home raised up on poles. In her journal from her trip to Java, Carrie Chapman Catt describes how many homes were built in this manner in case of flooding.
Group of People with Pottery
1910
Group of people sitting on the ground outside of a thatched house with pottery.
Table Mountain
1910
View of Table Mountain and beach from Milnerton, South Africa. People are walking on the beach.
House of Parliament
1910
External view of the Parliament house in Cape Town, South Africa. In the background are mountains.