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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.
Snow-Covered Streetcar
1910
Winter scene with snow-covered street car. A sign on the storefront behind the street car reads: "[Wool]worth Co. 5 and 10".
Wells Street
1900
Traffic on Wells Street with the Germania Newspaper weekly building in the background.
Remertsen's Boarding House
1900
A pioneer Scandinavian immigrant hotel on Clinton Street, south side, built before the Civil War. Posters are a board on the left side of the house, and a hand-lettered signboard near the front do...
Canal Ending at Lumberyard
1900
Two ships at the end of the canal, several buildings, a small lumberyard, and snow. Three other ships are visible down the canal.