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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.
Children and Adults at Wading Pool
circa 1940-1949
A group of children and adults at a wading pool in a park.
Solomon Juneau Monument
1940
Monument in Juneau Park. A man is sitting on a bench, with Lake Michigan behind.
Public Swimming Park
1930
Sunbathers relax on the piers at the swimming park on the Milwaukee River.
Swimmers at South Shore Beach
July 26, 1914
A group, mostly youth, on the shores of Lake Michigan at South Shore beach in the Bay View neighborhood. Caption on glass plate reads, "On the Sands, South Shore Park".
Wisconsin State Fair Parking
circa 1940-1949
Panorama view of a parking lot filled with cars at the state fair.
Vieau Cabin with Historic Site Marker
1940
A replica of the cabin built by Jacques Vieau, now in Mitchell Park. A stone monument with a plaque sits in front of the cabin.
