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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.
Bayview Beach
1910
A group of sunbathing adults and children standing and sitting near a blanket, folding chairs, and umbrella set up on a beach. In the background, swimmers are gathered near a rowboat and raft out i...
Syl Fishing from Pier
August 10, 1902
View from shoreline of Syl wearing a short cape fishing from a small pier on a lake or river. A rowboat is tied to the dock. A small stretch of beach leads to a boathouse in the background.
Syl and the Millers in a Boat
1899
View from shoreline of a boy sitting and watching Syl and the Millers in a row boat. There are people in another boat as well as a steamboat on the water.
Riviera on Geneva Lake
August 31, 2014
Elevated view of adults and children on the sandy beach of Geneva Lake. Many of the people are sitting on colorful beach towels, shaded by umbrellas. Other people are playing along the shoreline, o...
Good Harbor Beach
A view of the shore and ocean at Good Harbor Beach. People in the foreground are using a set of wooden steps to exit the beach area while other people are walking on the beach or are sitting beneat...
Woman Rowing Boat
September 16, 1900
View from shoreline of a woman wearing a wide brimmed straw hat sitting in a row boat in a small body of water with the oars in her hands.
