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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.
Tank Cottage on the River
1889
Distant view of the cottage across the river, with reeds in the foreground. On the original site on the west side of the Fox River, before the restoration.
Tank Cottage
1930
View of the cottage with a stone wall in front of it, and surrounded by plants and trees. On the original site on the west side of the Fox River before restoration.
Plaque depicting Tank Cottage
Plaque commemorating Tank Cottage, constructed in 1776 in Green Bay.
