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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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Downtown River View
1900
View across river of a boat docked near a building with a sign for Adolph Meinecke & Sons (Manufacturers). In the background is City Hall.
Industrial Plants
1955
Buildings and smokestacks along a riverfront. Sky darkened by the smoke.
Wells Street Bridge
1938
Elevated view of a tugboat pulling a lake steamer on the Milwaukee River under an open drawbridge near the Electric Company.
Manufacturing District
October 23, 1913
Looking north on the Milwaukee River from approximately E. St. Paul Avenue (Clybourn Street bridge in the foreground). This features an elevated view of the manufacturing district surrounding the M...
Milwaukee River with Boats
1906
Boats on the Milwaukee River. Caption reads: "Boats on Milwaukee River."
Jones Island
1961
Shoreline of Lake Michigan. This is mainly a commercial fishing community, and some of the Lake Michigan ferry boats dock here. A pole with a lifesaving ring is on the left.
