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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.
Manufacturing District
October 23, 1913
Looking north on the Milwaukee River from approximately E. St. Paul Avenue (Clybourn Street bridge in the foreground). This features an elevated view of the manufacturing district surrounding the M...
Pabst Theater and City Hall
Elevated view looking northeast at the Pabst Theater and City Hall on Wells Street, east of the Milwaukee River.
Caswell Block Building
June 19, 1909
Elevated view of the Caswell Block building at W. Wisconsin and N. Plankinton Avenues.
Milwaukee Lumberyards
September 10, 1903
Elevated view looking north on the Milwaukee River from the Holton Street viaduct towards the Milwaukee lumberyards.
Humboldt Avenue Bridge
May 11, 1902
Looking up the Milwaukee River to the Humboldt Avenue bridge, with the North Avenue dam in the background.
Passenger Steamboats on Milwaukee River
View of two steamboats, looking up the Milwaukee River from the north bank, near the foot of N. Milwaukee Street. Both steamboats are of the Goodrich Transportation Company. The boat in the foregro...
