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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.
City Hall, The First One
1870
Portion of City Hall with a flag flying from the roof. There is another building across the street, and horse-drawn carriages and people on the road.
Milwaukee County Court House
1839
Courthouse and surrounding buildings. There are also two horse-drawn carriages, people on horseback, and a few pedestrians.
City Hall
1900
Street view; City Hall is in background. Taken on the edge of a street with horse-drawn carriages, and buildings lining the street, and a man wearing a hat in the bottom right corner.
North Water Street
1910
North Water Street with City Hall in the background. Numerous horse-drawn vehicles are driving along the street and parked along the curbs, and pedestrians are crossing the street.
City Hall Square
1890
Elevated view of old City Hall building at right center facing the camera. Electric power poles are along the street, along which horse-drawn carriages and trolleys travel. A large clock is on the ...
City Hall
April 29, 1921
Elevated view of City Hall at intersection bustling with pedestrians, streetcars, and parked automobiles.
