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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.
Suffering of Belgian Refugee
1914
Homeless Belgian refugees sitting on a brick sidewalk along the street as they are preparing for another hard day.
Suffering of Belgian Refugees
1914
Refugees trying to get warm by the fire in a makeshift tent city.
Wagon Shelter for Belgian Refugee Family
1914
A wagon is serving as an emergency shelter for a refugee family.
Belgian Refugees Eating Soup
1914
Belgian refugees sitting around a fire, eating soup.
