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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.
Water Works Tower
View of the Water Tower, located on East Washington Avenue near the Capitol Square. Horse-drawn wagons are around the base of the tower.
Water Tower on East Washington Avenue
1918
View looking east towards a water tower on East Washington Avenue. There are commercial buildings along the sidewalks on the left and right, and automobiles, horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians ar...
Water Tower
1906
Water tower near East Washington Avenue, that stood from 1890 to 1920. Horse-drawn vehicles are parked at the base of the tower.
University Avenue
1915
View down center of University Avenue with storefronts on both sides. The signs on the left read: "Hurley Bros. Grocers" and "Garage." On the right are signs for: "Motorcycles" and "Olwell Bros. Gr...
Horse-Drawn Fire Wagon
1890
Horse-drawn fire wagon in front of several brick buildings, including the Capitol Publishing building, near the water tower. The man driving the wagon may be a firefighter.
The Old Water Tower from The Wisconsin State Capitol
Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol looking east, towards the old Water Works tower on East Washington Avenue.
