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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 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.
Fox River Water Power Plant
Elevated view across river toward the power plant, along with a bridge, trees, and smokestacks. Caption reads: "Water Power, Fox River, Appleton, Wis."
John Street Bridge
September 18, 1907
John Street Bridge crossing the river on the left, with industrial buildings and smokestacks in the distance on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "John Street Bridge, Appleton, Wis."
John Street Bridge
1905
Elevated view of John Street Bridge. Caption reads: "John Street Bridge, Appleton, Wis. Largest stone arch bridge in Wisconsin." A railroad bridge runs across the bridge in the foreground.
Fox River with Outcrop
Calm river with a rocky island or outcrop in the foreground.
John Street Bridge
1906
Elevated view of the bridge, which is intersected by a railroad bridge. Caption reads: "John St. Bridge, Appleton, Wis. Largest stone arch bridge in Wisconsin."