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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.
Hughlett's Smelting Furnace
May 1866
Engraved exterior view of a smelting furnace with a small group of men with horses gathered in front.
Lead Region of the Upper Mississippi River
1853
Engraved view of miners and hillside mines in the Lead Region. Caption reads: "Sketch of the Lead Region."
Weighing Pig Lead
May 1866
Engraved view of two men in a train locomotive observing the weighing of pig lead. Several bars of lead are stacked near the scale.
