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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 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.
West Virginia Shoreline
May 12, 1894
View from the Ohio River of the West Virginia shoreline.
Cresaps Bottom
May 11, 1894
View of Cresap's Bottom, looking toward the Ohio shore.
Fishermen on the Ohio River
May 10, 1894
Two fishermen in a boat on the Ohio River.
Cultivated Hillside
May 8, 1894
View from the Ohio River of cultivated hillsides and houses near the shoreline.
Reuben Gold Thwaites Rowing the "Pilgrim"
May 9, 1894
Reuben Gold Thwaites rowing the skiff the "Pilgrim" on the Ohio River.
Boys on Ohio River Shore
May 12, 1894
Four boys stand on the shoreline of the Ohio River, seeing Reuben and Jessie Thwaites off. Buildings and a church steeple can be seen in the background.
