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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.
Construction Workers' Cabins
September 27, 1933
Cabins for employees of the Interstate Construction Company working near Richland Center and Boaz. Road construction sites were frequently far from accommodations where the workers might stay. In ...
Highway 139 Paving
September 22, 1933
Paving operation on the section of State Highway 139 in Lafayette County locally known as the Platteville-Belmont Road.
Gravel Road Surface
June 14, 1951
Crushing gravel to surface STH 101 in Florence County.
Douglas County Road Crew
September 21, 1933
Employees of Anderson & Sons, a Minneapolis construction company, surfacing and curing USH 53 in Douglas County.
Road Crew
January 1919
View of the road crew at work on State Highway 11 (now 14) in Richland County.
