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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 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.
First Streetcars in Wisconsin
1886
First electric street railway service in Wisconsin.
School Group in Classroom
School group in classroom with teacher, possibly at Appleton, Wisconsin.
Library 4th of July Float
July 4, 1905
Children dressed as literary characters on a 4th of July float. Some children hold banners promoting the library.
Richland Center Carnegie Library
1911
Interior view of the Carnegie Library, Richland Center, WI. Two people are seated at a table reading at the far left. A frieze decorates the wall above a doorway between rooms.
Making Buckwheat Pancakes
September 13, 1949
Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove.
Double Water Spirit Effigy Mound
May 4, 1915
Elevated view of a double water spirit effigy mound 4 miles south of Stockbridge near Appleton. The spirit has no head but the necks unite.
