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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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North Pier Lighthouse
Three men pose standing on ice around North Pier lighthouse. In the background is the town along the shoreline.
Pier and Lighthouse at Night
1927
Hand-colored postcard view of a pier and lighthouse at night. The moon shines through clouds, and light shines in two directions from the beacon on top of the lighthouse. A ship is on the horizon. ...
North Shore of Lake Superior
April 1892
Drawing of the north shore of Lake Superior with cliffs and seagulls.
"South American" near Lighthouse
The screw passenger cruise vessel, "South American," in a channel. Shore and lighthouse in foreground.
The Wilfred Sykes at the Ore Dock
circa 1960
The screw bulk freighter, Wilfred Sykes at L.S. and I. Ore Dock in Marquette, Michigan about 1960. Lake shore and trees are in the foreground.
Lighthouse and Pier
before 1916
Tinted postcard of the lighthouse and a light tower at the end of a pier. A small boat with two passengers is on the water. This would be the Racine North Breakwater Lighthouse, and the Racine Nort...
