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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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Grand Avenue
1905
Slightly elevated view of Grand Avenue. Several horse-drawn vehicles are on the road and pedestrians are along the sidewalks. Caption reads: "Milwaukee. Grand Avenue."
View of Tomah, Wisconsin
1910
Slightly elevated view of street in Tomah. Caption reads: "Looking North from Fountain, Tomah, Wis."
Street Scene
1905
Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts, an electric cable car and pedestrians. Electric power lines hang over the street. Business signs read: "First National Bank," "Brown Sisters Millin...
First Street
Elevated view of First Street lined with trees, storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Text on buildings reads: F.Z. Meeks Wholesale Grocery Co." and "Benton Co. Hdw. Co."
Drinking Fountain, Superior Avenue
June 1, 1911
Text on front reads: "Drinking Fountain, Superior Ave., Tomah, Wis." A public drinking fountain on Superior Avenue, a wide unpaved boulevard. Horse-drawn vehicles can be seen in the street and tree...
National Avenue Looking East
1905
View down National Avenue. Storefronts line both sides of the road, and there are horse-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and a streetcar. Caption reads: "National Ave., Looking East, Milwaukee."
