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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.
Minnesota Point Light House
1897
Long view of the Minnesota Point lighthouse, built at the entrance to Superior Harbor. It is allegedly the first lighthouse at the head of Lake Superior.
Lighthouse, Superior, Wisconsin
1907
Caption reads: "Old Light House, Wisconsin Point, Superior, Wis."
Lighthouse, Superior, Wisconsin
1910
View of the remnants of the Minnesota Point Lighthouse. Faint caption at bottom reads: "Lighthouse".
Barn, Superior, Wisconsin
1930
View of a barn, built between about 1875 and 1876. Buildings are in the background.
House Exterior in Superior, Wisconsin
1930
Exterior view of a house built in about 1900.
Ashton Home, Superior, Wisconsin
1930
Exterior view of the Ashton home, built in about 1853 or 1854.
