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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.
Steamboat Saint Joseph
View across water towards the front of the Saint Joseph. The stages are suspended by the bows. Many of the passengers are posing along the front rails on the main and boiler decks of the steamboat....
Merrimac Ferry
Slightly elevated view through trees from shoreline of the Merrimac ferry with automobiles aboard. A sign on the ferry says: "Colsac".
Steamboat with Crowded Decks
View from shoreline of a large crowd of people posing on the decks of a docked steamboat. There is a row of men standing along the top of the ship. On the far shoreline is a tree-lined hill or bluf...
Merrimac Ferry
1951
View from road of the Merrimac ferry approaching shore with several automobiles and a large truck aboard. In the foreground is a sign that reads: "Keep Back Until Ferry Is Unloaded".
Houseboat in Florida
1968
View from shoreline towards a man standing on the deck of a houseboat, which has the name "Surfside 6" on its side.
