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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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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.
Williamson Street with Fauerbach Brewery
1940
The 600 block of Williamson Street ("Machinery Row") with the old Fauerbach Brewery in the background.
Potosi Barrels
1936
Seven beer barrels stacked in front of a truck, outside the Potosi Brewery.
Old Brewery at Potosi
circa 1936-1940
An exterior view of the old brewery at Potosi. A man is walking down the street toward the building.
St. Josephat's Basilica
1936
View down street of St. Josephat's Basilica and the surrounding streets.
Fauerbach Brewery
1939
The old Fauerbach Brewery at 651-653 Williamson Street. The corner entrance is flanked by columns.
City Hall from Bridge
1936
View from bridge of City Hall at North Water, North Market, and East Wells Streets, and East Kilbourn Avenue.
