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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.
American Express Wagons
1913
Horse-drawn American Express wagons in front of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway depot.
Railroad Yard
1914
Slightly elevated view of railroad trains and cars parked in a railroad yard.
Bernard's Boat House
1915
View from water of Bernard's Boat House on Lake Mendota, adjacent to the present James Madison Park.
Richard Lloyd Jones
August 1916
Richard Lloyd Jones, editor and publisher (1911-1919) of the Wisconsin State Journal, at his desk.
Conklin Fire
June 17, 1915
Several men try to extinquish a fire in an ice house, which is known as the Conklin Fire.
Building Site
1916
A building site at 11 West Main Street, next to Gamm's Jewelry Store and Cop's Cafe. Power lines are in the alley in the background.
