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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.
Moving Paper
1930
Two men are moving a large roll of paper with the help of an overhead pulley.
Paper Mill
July 1936
View across field towards a bus sitting in the driveway in front of a large factory complex, which has a water tower and three smokestacks. "Airport 2 Mi." is painted on the roof of the low buildin...
Sand Mine
July 1936
A worker is driving a Plymouth "dinky" locomotive out of the entrance of a sand mine. One full car is behind the engine.
At Rest
1935
A farmer resting, sitting on the handles of his plow, with his right foot in the furrow. His team, in harness, are standing head to head. They are in front of a barbed wire fence, and a hill is in ...
Paper Mill
July 1936
View across field towards large smokestack towering above the complex of buildings at the Niagara paper mill. On the far right, water is flowing through the gates of the dam on the Menominee River.
Tiger Muskie
1940
A taxidermied specimen of a tiger muskellunge photographed in a naturalistic setting.
