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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.
Steam Tractor on Main Street
Two men driving a steam tractor in town with a few spectators. Storefronts, identified from left to right, including, O.J. Heath Saloon, store of Moses Paquette with an awning advertising Bangor Be...
Pedestrians on Main Street
Girl in a light-colored dress walking across Main Street and a man crossing in left foreground. Storefront on Main Street, identified from left to right, O.J. Heath Saloon, Mose Paquette, Werner Dr...
Man on Telephone Pole near First Street
South First Street and the intersection with Main Street. Men on corner looking at man on telephone pole. The man hanging from the pole is probably Ernest Manthe. Signs on the buildings on the righ...
Workmen Installing Telephone Poles
Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team.
Herd of Horses on Main Street
Herd of horses passing through town on Main Street. Western range horses were brought in unbroken and sold to farmers at low prices. Storefronts, identified from left to right: O.J. Heath Saloon, M...
