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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.
Jones Island Storefront
October 28, 1938
Signs for Kingsbury Beer and politicians are in the window of a storefront.
Detroit and Jefferson Streets
Intersection of Detroit and Jefferson Streets. At the corner is a business with a sign on the front promoting spaghetti and ravioli. On the side of the same building is a sign reading 'Milwaukee's ...
J. Robert Taylor at Desk
1938
Informal portrait of J. Robert Taylor at his desk talking on the phone.
Horse-Drawn Fire Engine
Three men in a horse-drawn fire engine racing down a downtown street.
Weiss-Lippert Pattern Co.
Exterior view of the Weiss-Lippert Pattern Company. A car is parked outside near the curb on the cobblestone street, and a chapel stands to the left.
City Street
1940
Corner of Second and National Avenue. Cars are lined up on both sides of the street in front of storefronts.
