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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 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.
Razing of Milwaukee Country Court House
June 19, 1939
Milwaukee County Court House in the process of being razed. A worker is standing on part of the second floor, in front of what is left of the dome.
Demolition on Kilbourn Avenue
April 10, 1941
A structure is being demolished on Kilbourn Avenue.
J. Robert Taylor at Desk
1938
Informal portrait of J. Robert Taylor at his desk talking on the phone.
Milwaukee County Court House
June 9, 1939
Elevated view of Milwaukee County Court House, with a tree-filled park area in the foreground and the city in the background. There is debris on the roof, and three men are working on the top of th...
J. Robert Taylor on Motorcycle
1911
Front view of the photographer J. Robert Taylor on his motorcycle.
USS "Akron" over Milwaukee
October 17, 1931
View from below of blimp, USS "Akron" during a test flight that took it over Milwaukee.