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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
Treasure City Interior
May 25, 1963
An interior view of Treasure City, a souvenir shop on a highway which travels north from Chicago, Illinois. Nets of sea shells, displays of jewelery, and miscellaneous objects are visible throughou...
Gravel Pit with Wooden Cross
October 5, 1963
View down into a large gravel pit. A small, wooden cross is in the foreground.
Tire Pile
October 13, 1963
A large pile of used tires near a DX gasoline sign. In the background are several grain elevators, a house, and a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer sign.
Lake Mendota in Winter
December 20, 1961
Elevated view from hill over boathouse of frozen Lake Mendota during the wintertime. Taken from the Wisconsin Center building.
Feed Mill at Night
August 18, 1961
A nighttime view of a feed mill and storage area.
