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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.
Clock Tower
View across lawn toward a vine-covered stone clock tower with trees in the background.
Street Side Terraces
View across road toward homes set above the street on an incline. Horses and carriages are parked on the other side of a street along a brick wall. Two spires are in the background on the right, ob...
Residential Main Street
View down residential Main Street. Horse-drawn carriages and automobiles pass the First Congregational Church, a building with a colonnaded entrance and clock tower built around 1765.
DeFrance Park
1910
A view of DeFrance Park from S. Mulinex street featuring a dirt path, large trees, park benches and tables a large decorated cart and gazebos in the background. Published by S. McKeehan Drugs.
Downtown Street Scene
View of a downtown street featuring cable cars, horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, and storefronts. National Hotel, built in 1855, stands on the street corner at left.
Seventh Street
Street-level view of Seventh Street showing tall stone buildings, advertising signs, foot traffic, cars and a trolley.