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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.
Dousman House Hotel
1900
The Dousman Hotel seen from an elevated view of the Mississippi River.
Dousman House
1906
Slightly elevated view of the Dousman House. Caption reads: "The Dousman House. The Resort of the Mississippi Valley, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin."
Fort Crawford
1840
Fort Crawford (the second site, with buildings of 1829-?), on the east bank of the Mississippi River, about 2 miles above the mouth of the Wisconsin River.
Fort Crawford
1900
A view of the ruins of the guardhouse used in 1883. Caption reads: "Ruins of Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, Wis."
View Looking Toward Old Diamond Jo Warehouse
1905
View looking toward old Diamond Jo Warehouse, before the bridge was built. Caption reads: "Mississippi River and Prairie du Chien, Wis., from Iowa Side".
Diamond Jo Warehouse
1953
Elevated view from bridge of the Diamond Jo warehouse along the Mississippi River shoreline.
