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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
American Express at Railroad Depot
1913
Horse-drawn American Express wagons in front of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Depot.
Railroad Yard
1914
Slightly elevated view of railroad trains and cars parked in a railroad yard.
Syttende Mai Parade
1914
View across street towards a horse-drawn float featuring a Viking ship and men dressed as Vikings. Men are marching behind with American and Norwegian flags.
Bernard's Boat House
1915
View from water of Bernard's Boat House on Lake Mendota, adjacent to the present James Madison Park.
Railroad Freight Wagons
1913
View down platform between two railroad trains of men unloading freight onto wagons from a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway freight car at the Madison depot.
Conklin Fire
June 17, 1915
Several men try to extinquish a fire in an ice house, which is known as the Conklin Fire.
