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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.
Lake Ripley Island Resort
1948
View from a pier of rowboats and a cabin at the Island Resort on Lake Ripley.
Everyone Is Friendly at Trapper's Lake Inn
1948
Barefoot boy sitting on a bar and feeding a fawn with a bottle. There is a Schlitz sign on the wall behind the bar and a handwritten sign listing Pabst, Schlitz, and Miller. Caption reads: "Everyon...
Man with Lawn Mower
1947
A man stands outdoors with a lawn mower. His work gloves and hat are resting on the mower. Caption on photograph reads, "Uncle Paul from Rice Lake-Wis."
Car Driving in Downtown District
1927
A car drives on a main street in a downtown business district.
Mounted Muskellunge on Wall
1944
A muskellunge caught by Louie Spray in 1939 on display at the Angler's Bar. The muskellunge weighed fifty-nine and a half pounds and was caught in Grindstone Lake in Sawyer County. Caption on photo...
The Cumberland Hotel
1940
Exterior view of The Cumberland Hotel. The hotel opened in March of 1891 and was demolished in 1965.
