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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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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.
The Dam
1907
Text on front reads: "The Dam, Ripon, Wis." Water spills over the Ripon Dam, on Silver Creek, with the Ripon Pond in the background. Dwellings and a building can be seen on the shoreline, with tree...
Public Square
July 25, 1908
Text on front reads: "Public Square." View from a tall building over the Public Square with buildings and dwellings of the town spreading out to the horizon.
Burning of the Ripon Opera House
1904
Text on front reads: "Burning of the Ripon Opera House, Ripon Wis." A dramatic scene at night, with flames consuming an Opera House which is silhouetted against an orange background.
Ceresco High School
1912
Text on front reads: "Ceresco High School, Ripon, Wis." A two-story schoolhouse with basement windows along the foundation, and attic space. The school has two towers, a chimney, sidewalks and trees.
Bird's-Eye View
circa 1910-1919
Hand-colored view over rooftops of Fairchild. Commercial buildings are in the foreground, and dwellings are in the background. Caption reads: "Bird's-Eye View, Fairchild, Wis."
Bird's-Eye View of Fox Lake
1912
Bird's-eye view of downtown Fox Lake, with a marshy area and the lake in the background. Caption reads: "Bird's-eye View, Fox Lake, Wis."
