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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.
Downtown Milwaukee
1912
Street cars and busy pedestrian traffic mingle in this view of the 200 West Water Street block in downtown Milwaukee.
Women Pedestrians
1911
Three women in large hats walking away from two streetcars on a windy day. Other men and women are standing in the background. One of the streetcars has a sign that reads: "Delaware". A brick build...
Winter Street Scene
1914
Snow covers a streetcar and pedestrians walk through a snow-covered street.
Downtown Milwaukee Street
View down Milwaukee street with strolling pedestrians on the sidewalk. The large commercial buildings include the Gridley Dairy Co. storefront. There is also a sign which reads "I.O.O.F." A streetc...
Pedestrians near the Wisconsin National Bank
Several pedestrians walking near the Wisconsin National Bank building.
Snowy Downtown Street
Snowy Milwaukee street with the Edgewood streetcar, pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages. Men and women are passing by a clock on the sidewalk. A Gimbels sign is on top of a roof in the background.
