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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
Cheese Factory
Building thought to be a cheese factory, with workers and horse-drawn delivery wagons in the front.
Dirt Road in Antigo
Rural dirt road in the town of Antigo. Houses are in the distance.
Construction Workers
Construction workers on the job, with horse-drawn wagons in the background.
Horse-Drawn Wagons
Three men pose on two wooden horse-drawn wagons. A bluff is in the far background.
Horse-Drawn Wagon and Men
1885
View of a street scene featuring people standing on a horse-drawn wagon in the foreground, and a restaurant in the background.
Pilgrims of the Plains
1871
Wood engraving of pioneer men, one of whom is playing a violin, surrounded by covered wagons.