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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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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.
Housing Project under Construction
March 1936
Grouping of houses in the Greendale suburb of Milwaukee, which are shown during the construction phase.
Residential Street with Children on Tricycles
1936
View from lawn of curved residential street lined with recently constructed housing and lampposts. A car sits in a driveway of a house on the left, and further down the road children play on tricyc...
Children Playing in front of Two-Story House
1939
Seven children wearing coats and hats play in front of a roofed entrance of two-story house. One child has a tricycle, another is holding a doll. An automobile can be seen in the background.
Rainwater Pooling Outside House
Rainwater pooling on the curb and in the driveway of a residence. A garage and well-groomed yard is also visible. A tricycle and coaster wagon are on a walk between the house and garage. This pictu...
Proposed Development of the Fifth Cul-De-Sac
March 3, 1937
A pencil drawing of a proposed area of the planned community of Greendale, Wisconsin. The community was established as an objective of the Department of Agriculture's Resettlement Administration. C...
Jefferson Street South from Doty Street
1896
Jefferson Street south from Doty Street with trees lining the street.
