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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.
Dirt Road in Antigo
circa 1910-1919
Rural dirt road in the town of Antigo. Houses are in the distance.
Electric Streetcar
circa 1900-1909
An electric streetcar in Milwaukee with a large Gimbels sign in the background.
Ferris Wheel
circa 1900-1909
Elevated view of a Ferris Wheel on Main Street. Men and women are strolling about and many storefronts can be seen.
Wisconsin Avenue Bridge
1900
View looking up Wisconsin Avenue from the bridge. Many pedestrians, streetcars, and horse-drawn vehicles are visible.
Military Parade on Main Street
circa 1900-1909
Crowds of individuals assembled on the sides of the street to watch parading soldiers, and Native Americans riding horses. Looking east on Main Street from between 2nd and 3rd Streets.
Circus Performers Gather to View Eclipse
circa 1900-1909
Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus performers gathered in front of a circus tent to view a solar eclipse. Some are wearing protective eyeglasses.
