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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
Milwaukee River Scene
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view of a Milwaukee River scene showing people watching several steamboats from a bridge.
Milwaukee River
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view of Milwaukee River from Walker's Point Bridge.
View from Near East Water Street Bridge
circa 1890-1899
View of a steamboat down the river from near East Water Street Bridge.
Down Wisconsin from Broadway
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view down Wisconsin from Broadway of buildings, street traffic and bridge in distance.
"New Dell Queen Steamboat" and Passengers
circa 1890-1899
Crowd of passengers posing on the "New Dell Queen" steamboat. Bridge in background.
Milwaukee, Southwest from Mitchell Block
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view of Milwaukee, looking southwest from Mitchell block showing buildings, and the paddle steamer John A. Dix.
