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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.
West Virginia Shoreline
May 12, 1894
View from the Ohio River of the West Virginia shoreline.
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.
Ohio River View
May 9, 1894
View upstream of the Ohio River from a lunching spot on a West Virginia bank.
