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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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West Side of Main Street
1910
View of the west side of Main Street. Stores pictured (right to left): Kypke's Dry Goods store, Heimstreet's Drugstore, and a saloon.
Main Street
1905
Main street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric lights hang over the street. Business signs read: "J.H. Kreiling Tailor" "J.F. Womble" "Schloss." Caption reads: "Mai...
Turn of the Century Milwaukee Traffic
1900
Elevated view of busy street scene in downtown Milwaukee at the turn of the century showing a trolley, horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians near an intersection.
Main Street Streetcar
1910
Elevated view of a streetcar going down North Main Street. Raiche Drugstore sits on the right corner.
Main & Fifth Streets in La Crosse
1905
View of pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages downtown, at the corner of Main and Fifth Street. J.A. Erhart & Sons' Drugstore are on the right side of the road. L.G. Loomis' Music & Art store is d...
Monroe Courthouse Square View
1880
Stereograph view of downtown businesses, on the courthouse square. On the right corner is a drugstore and shoe store.
