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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.
Freight Train
1905
Smoke rises from a steam engine pushing (or pulling) a freight train. There are bent rails and snow in the ditch.
Cottage
1905
A wooden cottage with large front and side porches which are supported by brick pillars. A broad staircase leads from ground level up to the side porch. A chair sits beside the door.
Farm Scene
1905
A man stands with a horse near a small barn. A buggy and wagon are parked nearby. There are two small sheds or outhouses near a garden plot and a haystack in the background.
Rustic Bridge
1905
The rustic iron bridge on University Drive. The sign on the left advertises a $25.00 Reward. Lake Mendota is visible on the right.
Clara Middleton
1900
Clara Middleton poses seated in a chair, reading. She is wearing a narrow fur stole over her shoulder.
Cottages
1910
View across fields of two cottages with wrap-around screened porches standing in front of a row of evergreen trees. The house on the right has a second story sleeping porch and outhouse; there is a...
