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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.
Bedroom of Madam Tank; Tank House
circa 1950-1959
Interior color postcard of a bedroom at the Tank House built in 1776. In the room is a bed, chest, fireplace, dressing table with mirror and a spinning wheel.
National Railroad Museum
circa 1960-1969
Color postcard of the Sumter and Choctaw R.R., Mikado Type Locomotive, freight cars and Milwaukee Road caboose.
Brown County Veteran's Memorial Arena
circa 1950-1959
Color postcard of a domed sports and concert venue. A parking lot is in the front.
Library; Tank House
circa 1950-1959
Interior color postcard of the library in the Tank House, built by Joseph Le Roi in 1776. A piano is against the wall on the right under framed portraits. On the left is a clock on a table in front...
National Railroad Museum; Dwight D. Eisenhower Locomotive #60008
1964
Color postcard of a green customized locomotive. Text on reverse reads: "Famous Dwight D. Eisenhower Locomotive #60008. Built in London and N.E.R.R. in 1934. Given to R.R. Museum by British Railwa...
Fort Howard Military Hospital
circa 1950-1959
A historic hospital, now a museum. Erected in 1816. Contains valuable collections of historic items of old Green Bay, including memorabilia of William Beaumont, M.D., a famous army surgeon.
