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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.
Milwaukee Public Library on Grand Avenue
1898
View across Grand Avenue of the Milwaukee Public Library. To the left, the base of the Midsummer Festival Monument can be seen, and the George Washington monument is visible on the far right.
Washington Monument
1898
A monument to George Washington located in Milwaukee's Court of Honor on the median between the lanes of West Wisconsin Avenue between 8th and 10th Streets. On the left a number of people are sitti...
Milwaukee Soldiers Monument, "The Victorious Charge"
1898
Women congregate near "The Victorious Charge," a monument to Soldiers who fought in the Civil War located in Milwaukee's Court of Honor on the median between the lanes of West Wisconsin Avenue. The...
Milwaukee Buildings from top of Pabst Building
1898
Elevated view from the top of the Pabst Building down East Wisconsin Avenue all the way to Milwaukee Bay and out to the horizon of Lake Michigan. One of the buildings is the "Goldsmith Building."
Cannon at Soldiers Home
July 30, 1898
A cannon at Soldiers Home adorned with American flags near a sign reading "Keep off the grass."
Large Sailing Ship in Milwaukee Harbor
1898
A large sailing ship docked in Milwaukee Harbor.
