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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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Mississippi River View and Bluff
circa 1890-1899
Man standing on bluff with Mississippi River far below in the background.
Boys Undressing to Go Swimming in the Mississippi River
1900
Boys undressing to go swimming in the Mississippi River. Alma, Wisconsin is across the river in the background.
Alma, Wisconsin
1883
Man waving his hat in foreground with Alma, Wisconsin, visible in background across the Mississippi River.
Long View of Alma, Wisconsin, from the Mississippi River
1890
View of Alma across river from sandbar. A rowboat is on the sandbar, and on the right a father and child are standing posed each with one foot on a log.
Steamer "Quincy"
circa 1890-1899
Steamer "Quincy" of the St. Louis, Davenport, & St. Paul Line in the Mississippi River.
Alma on Mississippi River
1902
Elevated view of the city and the Mississippi River from the bluffs above the city. Photograph was taken after 1902 when the Buffalo County Training School building was erected. A steamboat is on t...
