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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.
The Wade House
1860
The oldest known image of the Wade House (taken from Ambrotype) with the Sheboygan/Fond du Lac Plank Road in the foreground.
Albert Knowles
1920
Albert Knowles, brother-in-law of William Wade, at Herrling Farm. The Greenbush Baptist Church is visible in the background.
Stagecoach Ride at Wade House
August 1959
Visitors enjoy a stagecoach ride, an attraction at Old Wade House during the August "twilight tours" of this historic site. A team of two horses stand in the road, waiting to pull the stagecoach as...
Wade House Inn
1920
Front view of the Wade House. The Wade House, one of the earliest stagecoach inns in Wisconsin, was built between 1847 and 1851 by Sylvanus Wade. It became the most important stop on the plank road...
Group of People Posing in front of House
View from road over fence towards a group of men, women and children gathered in the yard of a two-story building with a wrap-around balcony.
