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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.
Downriver from State Street Bridge
circa 1890-1899
View downriver from the State Street Bridge showing a large sailing vessel.
Grand Avenue
circa 1890-1899
View up Grand Avenue from bridge. Pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles cross bridge on the left.
Milwaukee River
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view of Milwaukee River from Walker's Point Bridge.
View from Near East Water Street Bridge
circa 1890-1899
View of a steamboat down the river from near East Water Street Bridge.
Grand Avenue and Bridge
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view of Grand Avenue and a bridge over the river, with streetcar and horse-drawn vehicles on the street.
Looking up Grand Avenue
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view over bridge and river looking up Grand Avenue. Pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles and a street car are in the foreground.
