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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.
Improved Rural Road
1918
Amery Road near New Richmond. The photograph was taken by the Wisconsin Good Roads Association probably as an illustration of the kind of improved roads that the organization advocated. The photo...
U.S. Highway 12 and 16
1926
Car on a dirt highway west of Hustler. The highway is U.S. 12 and 16.
Rural Dirt Road in Oakfield
1916
Car on a dirt road near Oakfield in Fond du Lac County. The road eventually became U.S. Highway 151. County Highway Commission Costello is driving the car. Original from State Highway Department f...
Dirt Road in Antigo
Rural dirt road in the town of Antigo. Houses are in the distance.
Autumn Pasture, Shawano County
1946
View over fence towards a pasture, with several cows lying on the ground. Leaves are covering the ground.
Parting for Progress
1961
Two automobiles driving on a highway cutting between two halves of a rock outcropping. The rock was blasted to build the road.
