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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.
Nicolet Monument
1920
View of the Nicolet monument at the site where Nicolet is supposed to have landed in Wisconsin.
Jean Nicolet Memorial
1951
Text on reverse reads: "Near this spot the first white contact in the Northwest was made by Jean Nicolet at Red Banks in 1634. This memorial by Sidney Bedore, sculptor, was erected by the school ch...
