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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.
Attribution
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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Town View
Elevated view of the town and harbor with mountains across the water. Text on photograph reads, "One of the interesting old towns."
Town View
Elevated view of the town from across the bay. Mountains rise behind the city's shoreline buildings.
City View
View of the city from across the water, where a boat can be seen. Mountains rise in the background.
City View
View of the city's shoreline from across the bay. A boat can be seen along the nearest shore and mountains rise behind the city buildings in the distance.
Marathon Mountain
June 21, 1917
View across water towards the 4,462-foot Marathon Mountain at midnight. Houses and establishments are along the shoreline. A bar is labeled, "The Commerce," and "Olympia Beer."
