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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.
High School
1920
Color postcard view across street toward the high school. Caption reads: "High School, Columbus, Wis."
Crawfish River, Below the Dam
1900
Color-enhanced black and white postcard looking at the dam on the Crawfish River from downstream. Caption reads: "Crawfish River, below the Dam, Columbus, Wis."
Bird's-Eye View of Columbus
1910
Photographic postcard of an elevated view looking across the downtown area. The Crawfish River is on the left. Caption reads: "Bird's-Eye View, Columbus, Wis."
Ludington Street
1920
Color photograph of Ludington Street, with parked automobiles and pedestrians and the post office on the left. Caption reads: "Ludington Street, Columbus, Wis."
Dells Boat Tour
1950
Tourists on the "Commander", a Wisconsin Dells tour boat on the Wisconsin River. The shores are lined with rock formations and trees.
In the Narrows, Wisconsin River Dells
1920
View across river towards the rear of the excursion boat "Apollo" in the narrows of the dells. Rock formations are on the left. Caption reads: "In the Narrows, Wisconsin River Dells, Kilbourn, Wis."
