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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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North Shore of Lake Superior
April 1892
Drawing of the north shore of Lake Superior with cliffs and seagulls.
Minnesota Point Light House
1897
Long view of the Minnesota Point lighthouse, built at the entrance to Superior Harbor. It is allegedly the first lighthouse at the head of Lake Superior.
Elevated View of Lake Superior and Town
1876
Stereograph view of Lake Superior scenery and downtown area.
Devils Island
Devils Island on Lake Superior, outermost of the Apostle Islands group. There appears to be the edge of a boat in the foreground.
Steamer Minnieta
circa 1870
The sternwheel excursion, Minnieta, on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin, in the 1870's.
