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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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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.
Steamer "Quincy"
circa 1890-1899
Steamer "Quincy" of the St. Louis, Davenport, & St. Paul Line in the Mississippi River.
Mississippi River View
1902
Hand-colored Mississippi River view with steamboat and rowboat in the river.
Mississippi River View and Bluff
circa 1890-1899
Man standing on bluff with Mississippi River far below in the background.
View of Alma, Wisconsin from the Mississippi River
1897
View of Alma from the Mississippi River, with wing dam on right.
Log-Rolling Contest
circa 1900-1909
Log-rolling contest with large group of spectators on shore.
Children with Rowboat
circa 1890-1899
Group of children playing in a rowboat in a Mississippi River inlet. Alma, Wisconsin is in the background on the opposite shoreline.
