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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.
Attribution
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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Traveling Junk Boat
May 6, 1894
View of a traveling junk boat near the shoreline on the Youghiogheny River. There is a bridge in the background.
Three Boys in a Boat
May 6, 1894
Three boys in a crude boat on the Monongahela River.
Two Doves Houseboat
May 7, 1894
View of a houseboat named "Two Doves" on the Ohio River.
Man in a Boat Hauling Nitroglycerin
May 8, 1894
A man transports nitroglycerin in a boat which has a red danger flag at the bow (unseen against the dark background).
