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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.
Street Carnival with Ferris Wheel
1912
View from sidewalk of a street carnival with tents, circus banners and a Ferris Wheel set up in the middle of the street. Signboards advertise ice cream and postcard photographs, and automobiles ar...
Business District Scene
1900
View down street toward storefronts on either side of a dirt road in the business district. Automobiles are parked on both sides of the street, and two automobiles and a horse-drawn carriage are mo...
Bijou Theater
1900
The Bijou Theater with a horse and carriage parked in front of it. There is a law office above the theater and a jeweler's store beside it.
Street Scene with the Public Library
1900
View across intersection toward the library on the left, and houses behind a tree-lined sidewalk on the right.
Public Library
1900
View toward the brick and stone facade of a neoclassical-style public library on a corner.
Municipal Auditorium
1900
Exterior view of the municipal auditorium, with a car parked along the curb in the street in front of it. Decorative brick and stonework enhance the facade of the structure.
