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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.
Trappers Leaving Hunting Grounds
Drawing of trappers on leaving their hunting grounds.
Indian Setting up a Hunting Trap
March 1892
An Indian sets up a hunting trap, with a rifle resting against a tree in the background.
Interior of Bonded Warehouse
circa 1877
Etching of interior of bonded warehouse with four men present, two conversing and two rolling barrels.
Interior of a Cider Mill
1879
Drawing of a girl sitting on a barrel as a man dumps apples into a press to make cider. Two men manually operate the press at the left.
French Fur Traders at La Baye
Several French fur traders negotiating with native Indians at La Baye.
