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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.
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.
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.
Indian Mound
May 11, 1894
South side view of an Indian Mound with a fence in front of it.
Operator's Shanty
May 12, 1894
Exterior view of a rundown oil worker's shanty, with a chair near the doorway.
Ohio River View
May 9, 1894
View upstream of the Ohio River from a lunching spot on a West Virginia bank.
