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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.
Street Scene
1905
Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts, an electric cable car and pedestrians. Electric power lines hang over the street. Business signs read: "First National Bank," "Brown Sisters Millin...
View of East Main Street
Looking West on East Main Street. Horse-drawn carriages are parked on both sides of street while two cable cars pass each other in the background.
Main Street Looking North
Electric cable car tracks run down the street and horse-drawn carts are on the right side of the street. Electrical power lines are strung across the street. Business signs read: "Cape Plumbing And...
Crowd Watching Elephant Parade
1910
A crowd watches a parade of people riding elephants down the street. A cable car and horse-drawn carts are nearby. Caption reads: "N.E. Cor. Square, Oskaloosa, Iowa."
Street Scene
View down a street lined with businesses and full of horse-drawn carts. Business signs read: "Hooker-Hendrix Hardware Co.," "Light & Power," "Norman Hotel," "Dr. McCollister Sanitarium Specialist" ...
Main Street
Main street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric power lines hang over the street. Business signs read: "Case & Hudelson Furniture and Stoves" "Ada Hardware" "Peter's...
