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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.
Wisconsin Central Freight Cars
May 5, 1897
Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc.
Patterns
1956
Aerial view of contour farming. Farms and patches of woods are spread out in the landscape.
Wisconsin Four Lane Highway
1954
Elevated view of a newly opened divided four lane highway.
Sauk County Farm
circa 1945
Elevated view of a large farm in a valley. Caption reads: "Prosperous Sauk County Dairy farm — nestling in a fertile valley between timber-clad hills. Photo: ca. 1945."
Aerial View of Contour Strip Farming
1958
Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background.
