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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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Fishing From A Pier
Several people stand on and fish from a pier. A shoreline is visible in the background.
"Russel 5" Tugboat
View of the "Russell 5" tugboat in the water near New York City. An American flag is flying on the boat. "Russell 5" is painted on the vessel. The shoreline and some buildings are in the background.
Long Pier
Elevated view of a long, curving pier on the bay with large sailboats with sails out on the left side, and smaller boats on the right.
Crowded Pier
Elevated view of adults and children wearing bathing costumes standing on a wooden dock crowded with several varieties of boats. People are swimming in the water on the left. In the background is a...
Excursion Boats at Playland
1928
Elevated view from shoreline of excursion boats docked at Playland near a jetty. People walk on the dock to board the boat, and tables shaded by umbrellas are in the foreground at what appears to b...
Boy Watching the Sea
A view of a boy watching the sea from a pier. Two sailboats are in the water,
