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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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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.
Main Street
1940
Main Street, showing a grocery store, restaurant, and the Up and Down Tavern.
Dad's Bar
1940
Customers standing outside the small bar are probably waiting to take the ferry across the river.
Otto's Tavern
August 25, 1946
Exterior view from across the street of Otto's Tavern.
Taverns on Milwaukee Street
1975
"Main (Milwaukee) Street. Six taverns were in business in the span of one block!"
Ferry at Merrimac
1940
Colsac Ferry across the Wisconsin River at Merrimac. There is a bridge across the river in the background on the left.
First Avenue
Elevated view of First Avenue, the main street in town. The area is home to the O.K. Lodging House, Denver Bar, and other restaurants and stores. Published by E.A. Hegg.
