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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 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.
Great Northern Grain Elevator
1910
Caption reads: "The Great Northern. One of the largest Elevators in the World, Superior, Wis."
Superior Harbor
Aerial view of harbor, with shipyards in the foreground and Superior in the background. Caption reads: "Aerial View of Harbor, Superior, Wisconsin."
Grain Elevators on Lake Superior
circa 1970-1979
View across water towards a cargo ship at dock in front of large grain elevators.
Bong Bridge, Duluth-Superior Bridge
1985
Aerial view of the Duluth-Superior Bridge, officially named in honor of Richard I. Bong, World War II's Ace of Aces, who hailed from nearby Poplar, Wisconsin. The bridge, which links I-35 in Minnes...
