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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.
Potosi Barrels
1936
Seven beer barrels stacked in front of a truck, outside the Potosi Brewery.
Williamson Street with Fauerbach Brewery
1940
The 600 block of Williamson Street ("Machinery Row") with the old Fauerbach Brewery in the background.
Fauerbach Brewery
1939
The old Fauerbach Brewery at 651-653 Williamson Street. The corner entrance is flanked by columns.
Brewing Kettles
1936
View from above of brewing kettles in the Pabst brewery in Milwaukee. There are workers standing on the ground floor, and in the far background is a large stained glass window.
