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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.
Courthouse Square
August 20, 1914
Courthouse Square (now Cathedral Square) showing Milwaukee County Courthouse from E. Wells and N. Jackson Streets. Caption on glass plate reads: "Court house [sic] square".
Walker Square Park
July 29, 1914
Individuals and children sitting on benches in the foreground of the residential park, with others in the middleground laying on the grass near the water fountain. Caption on glass plate reads: "Wa...
Courthouse Square
September 24, 1916
Courthouse (now Cathedral) Square, looking northeast from N. Jefferson and E. Wells Street. People are sitting on benches in the park, with the courthouse in the background. Caption on glass plate ...
Mr. Henry Weber
August 20, 1914
Henry Weber, the president of the Park Board rides in an automobile in Lake Park. Caption on glass plate reads: "Mr. Henry Webster [sic], prest. Park Board".
The Manhattan Block
October 20, 1914
Elevated view of the Manhattan Building (tallest structure) on North 2nd Street between West Michigan Street and West Wisconsin Avenue.
Milwaukee Journal Building
May 13, 1914
The Milwaukee Journal building at N. 4th Street, north of W. Wisconsin Avenue.
