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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.
Hermit of Diamond Grotto
circa 1890-1899
Hermit of Diamond Grotto (probably William H. Metcalf) looking through Black Hawk's Port Hole, Diamond Grotto.
Big Bear in Diamond Grotto
circa 1890-1899
Big Bear (a Ho-Chunk Man) sitting on the ground in front of Diamond Grotto.
Diamond Grotto — In Witches' Gulch #246
circa 1890-1899
Stereograph of a bearded man, William Metcalf, at Diamond Grotto in Witches' Gulch. Text at right: "Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Wisconsin Scenery."
