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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.
Lake Michigan from McKinley Park Looking Northward
November 8, 2014
Large slabs of rock line the shore of Lake Michigan. A tree is on the left. Heavy clouds are in the sky, with a patch of blue sky in the center.
Old North Pier Landing
1850
An illustration of the Old North Pier landing on Huron Street, drawn from memory.
Swimming Schools at Milwaukee River
1910
Elevated view from bridge looking over at a hill leading down to bath houses and fenced-in swimming areas for beginners. Establishment of Wm. Bechstein. Caption reads: "Swimming Schools as seen fro...
Water Skiers
June 12, 1955
A man and a woman water ski behind a power boat on a Lake Mendota with downtown Madison skyline in the background.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1940
Exterior of building from shoreline looking out to Lake Michigan. Along the pier are numerous docked boats and sailboats moored in water. On the left automobiles are parked along a fence.
