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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 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.
Elevated View of Downtown Area
1920
Elevated view over roofs, with the Milwaukee River in the background.
Fire Boats Near Walkway
1897
Boats used for fighting fires are docked near a walkway. On the left the walkway is full of men, some gathered near the boats and a fire hose stretched out on the ground.
Police Officer with Pedestrian
1900
Police officer helping a young woman cross the street.
Milwaukee River at Night
Downtown commercial building at night from across the Milwaukee River.
Motorboat on Milwaukee River
1914
View across water of a motorboat with four men going upstream. There is a bicycle in the motorboat. The shoreline in the background has industrial buildings with advertisements for "Quaker Oats, Th...
Girls Jumping Rope
1900
Two young girls with bows in their hair jump rope as a boy watches.
