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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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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.
Rephotographic Pair: Willow Street
A vintage view and a modern view of the same location, presented as a pair. The vintage view shows the Advent Church, while the modern view features a yellow house.
Rephotographic Pair: Main Street, Arena
A vintage view and a modern view down Main Street, presented as a pair. The wide street is lined with commercial buildings.
Rephotographic Pair: Downtown Blue Mounds
A vintage view and a modern view of buildings in the downtown area, presented as a pair. There is snow on the ground. The vintage view shows horses and wagons, while the modern view includes parked...
Rephotographic Pair: Brick School Building
A vintage view and a modern view of a brick school building, presented as a pair. The vintage view shows the District #4 School. The modern view shows the same building as Brown School.
Rephotographic Pair: Shake Rag Street
A vintage view and a modern view of stone buildings on Shake Rag Street, presented as a pair. In the vintage view, the buildings were the homes of coal miners. In the modern view, they are Pendarvi...
Rephotographic Pair: Downtown Cross Plains
A vintage view and a modern view down Main Street, including retail buildings.
