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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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My Recollections of Jones Island and Vicinity
1848
Pen-and-ink on paper. The title of the map is inscribed on the back. The map shows buildings, roads, marshes, wild rice, piles and docks, deep water, and old harbor. Roads running vertically begin ...
Maps of Milwaukee: Bay View Milwaukee
1940
This map is pen and ink on paper and is map 12 in a series of 12. The map shows streets, railroad lines, the Kinnickinnic River, and Lake Michigan.
Index Map of Milwaukee, Kinnickinnic and Menomonee Rivers, Milwaukee, Wis.
1925
This is the index map to a series of 11 maps that show rivers as well as riverside buildings, some landownership, and streets.
Milwaukee & Waukesha R.R. : sketch showing proposed routes from Milwaukee River to lime quarry at Milwaukee, Wis.
May 31, 1849
A hand-drawn map of showing two proposed railroad routes from the Milwaukee River to Moody's Lime Quarry in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The map includes the routes' relative location to Grand and Nationa...
Map of Milwaukee : Showing Location of Its Principal Buildings
1890
Map of Milwaukee as remembered by "Dr Enoch Chase, U.B. Smith & Others." Represented are major roads, lowlands, trails, homesteads, and lots. Map depicts the spring of 1836.
Plat of Soundings Taken at Milwaukee Harbor Wis.
April 16, 19, 23 & 26, 1926
This blueprint map shows water depths in the Milwaukee Harbor. It includes water surface diagram and "history of the harbor" regarding improvements and projects between 1836 and 1899. The Kinnickin...
