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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.
Houseboat near Shoreline
May 30, 1894
A houseboat on the Ohio River. A man stands on the deck of the boat on the right.
Bethel, a Church Boat
June 4, 1894
View of a church boat called "Bethel" on the river.
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.
Merchant Boat on Ohio River
May 13, 1894
View from shoreline of merchant boat, with the words Glass City on the side, floating down the Ohio River.
