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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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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.
Opera House
1883
The Oshkosh Grand Opera House. This is the interior elevated view showing the curtain painted by Louis Kindt of Kenosha, which depicts a scene from Goethe's "Herman and Dorthea"; the rest of the de...
Opera House
1883
View from intersection towards the Oshkosh Grand Opera House on a street corner. The building was started in 1882 and finished in the following year at a cost of $36,000. It measures 60 x 120 feet....
Hotel Athearn
1937
View across intersection towards the Hotel Athearn, which was built in 1891 across the street from the Grand Opera House. It was designed by the same man that designed the Grand Opera House, Willia...
Chandelier in Pierce House
1951
Interior view of the Pierce home at 424 North Pinckney Street. Pictured here is the chandelier at the top of the circular staircase within the home.
Circular Staircase in Pierce Home
1951
Circular staircase at the Pierce Home looking up toward the chandelier. The home is located at 424 North Pinckney Street, and was built around 1857.
Hotel Athearn
1905
Hotel Athearn, which was built across the street from the Grand Opera House. Designed by William Waters. Caption reads: "Athearn Hotel, Oshkosh, Wis."
