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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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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.
Bay View Rolling Mill
circa 1890-1899
Exterior of the Bay View Rolling Mill, Puddling Department, with workers posing outside the building. The men are standing near railroad tracks, and a few of the men are sitting on a small railroad...
Best's South Side Brewery
circa 1890-1899
View across water towards Best's South Side Brewery. There are railroad cars in front of the brewery.
Milwaukee, South from Courthouse
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view south from Courthouse of rooftops, with harbor and bay in distance.
Milwaukee River
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view of Milwaukee River from Walker's Point Bridge.
Milwaukee, From Courthouse
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view of Milwaukee, with a view north-northeast from courthouse.
Dome of Exposition Building
circa 1890-1899
View east of buildings and lake from the dome of the Exposition building. Lumber is stacked on the right.
