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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.
A Busy Day, Retreat
View down dirt road of horses and delivery wagons parked near wooden buildings on the left. A group of people are assembled, some on the porch of a large building, and some in the road.
Linden Mine
1930
View from off the road of a mine near Linden. A road sign alerts drivers that the State Truck Highway 39 is one mine away.
Retreat Street Scene
1922
View down dirt road towards a garage and other wooden buildings on the left. A tire shop back on the right. Two men are standing in front of the garage near an automobile parked at the curb. Anothe...
Main Street
1913
View down of Main Street, which is a dirt street passing through the central business district of the town, featuring several storefronts with porches and signs. An automobile and several horse-dra...
National Zinc Separating Company Plant
1925
View down railroad tracks towards large mounds of raw material at National Zinc Separating Company plant. Industrial buildings and a railroad car and an automobile are on the left.
Street Scene
View down road of horses, wagons and buggies parked in front of buildings. Three men stand near a hotel on the right. A church building is in the background, and in the far background are hills.
