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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.
American Shipbuilding Company
A man is standing in front of huge blocks of ice at the American Shipbuilding Company. The ship "War Otter" is in the background. A large chunk of ice tied with rope is suspended in the air just be...
Building a Big Boat
Colorized image of the frame of a large boat being built at the shipyards in Superior.
Pilgrim Congregational Church
1971
A crane setting a new steeple on the Pilgrim Congregational Church. People are standing near the crane on the ground, and men are standing on the roof helping the guide the crane.
The Yards in Winter
1950
View down railroad tracks towards a tall building. Smoke is billowing from the locomotive.
