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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.
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."
Milwaukee Street
1911
Milwaukee Street with trolley and horse-drawn vehicles. Caption reads: "Milwaukee Street, Janesville, Wis."
National Hotel
1870
The National Hotel on town square off of Main Street. A group of people and horse-drawn vehicles are in front of the hotel.
Main Street Streetcar
1910
Elevated view of a streetcar going down North Main Street. Raiche Drugstore sits on the right corner.
Fountain Square
1909
Colorized postcard view of a square in the central business district. A cable car runs down the center of the street, and horse-drawn vehicles are parked along the curbs. Caption reads: "Fountain S...
