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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.
Life-Saving Station and Garbage Crematory
1911
View across water toward several buildings on shoreline, two with large smokestacks. A man is standing on the shore, and two people are in a boat on the right. Caption reads: "Life-Saving Station a...
Aerial View of Harbor Area
1951
Aerial view of Jones Island and garbage disposal plant.
Aerial View of Harbor Area
1950
Harbor area of Jones Island and garbage disposal plant, Stratton Grain Co., and more.
Milwaukee Harbor
1940
Aerial view of city, river and harbor. Two smokestacks are on either side of the river mouth.
Industrial Plants
1955
Buildings and smokestacks along a riverfront. Sky darkened by the smoke.
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
1920
Aerial view of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. One of the largest machinery manufacturing plants in America, which produces turbine engines, gas producer engines, public utility power plant, e...
