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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.
Industrial Smoke Towers
1957
Unidentified industrial district with smoke billowing from many smokestacks.
Boats in Harbor
Three boats on right. Left side has two buildings and small boats in fog.
Milwaukee Harbor
1940
Aerial view of city, river and harbor. Two smokestacks are on either side of the river mouth.
Garbage Disposal Plant
1924
The smokestack is several inches out of plumb, which was the reason the photographer took the photograph. Located on a waterfront.
Milwaukee Riverfront
1914
A line of buildings with docked boats on the left side of the river.
Marquette University Library
1955
Exterior of library building with entrance to the left of center.
