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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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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.
Milwaukee Lumberyards
September 10, 1903
Elevated view looking north on the Milwaukee River from the Holton Street viaduct towards the Milwaukee lumberyards.
Holton Street Viaduct
June 8, 1902
Looking up the Milwaukee River to the Holton Street viaduct. In the center is the Gallun tannery. There is also a steamboat in the harbor, several lumber yards, and factories.
Steamboat on Menominee River
July 17, 1914
Steamboat "E.L. Wallace" on the Menominee River looking east from the 16th Street viaduct. Coal yards are on the banks of the harbor.
Humboldt Avenue Bridge
May 11, 1902
Looking up the Milwaukee River to the Humboldt Avenue bridge, with the North Avenue dam in the background.
Erie Railroad Lake Line
August 9, 1914
Erie Railroad Lake Line cargo ships transport coal on the Menominee River, west of the Water Street Bridge.
Cargo Ship on Menominee River
July 25, 1914
The Gilchrist Transportation Company cargo ship "Tyrone" transports coal on the Menominee River.
