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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.
Milwaukee Public Library and Museum
1940
The building has many classical architectural elements, including a dome. There is a large totem pole in front of the building. Pedestrians are walking on the sidewalk and cars line the road in front.
Milwaukee Public Library and Museum
1940
Exterior of library building, with a portion of the dome visible on the roof, from across the street behind a median strip planted with bushes.
Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools
1940
Central Building. Six-story building with cars along the road next to it. In the lower foreground is a parking lot with a sign listing parking as 15 cents.
Kilbourn Avenue
1940
Looking East down middle of avenue. Numerous vehicles are on the road, with a few pedestrians visible. A sign identifies the Republican Hotel on the left, at 343 Third Street.
City Hall, The First One
1870
Portion of City Hall with a flag flying from the roof. There is another building across the street, and horse-drawn carriages and people on the road.
Broadway as seen from Wisconsin Street
Elevated view of Broadway with several buildings lining the paved road, including A.W. Rich & Co. Drygoods, Millinery, and a Law Office on the right. Large telephone or power line poles run along ...
