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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.
Ridgeway Main Street
1911
A downhill view of Main Street with a shoe store and other buildings on the left. Some homes and a church in the distance. Horses and wagons in the street and a few pedestrians.
Cobb Hotel
1930
View from street of exterior of the Cobb Hotel and Cafe. A truck and car are parked outside the building.
Street in Business District
1921
View down middle of main street of the business district. Automobiles are parked along the curb and pedestrians are on the sidewalk.
Scene on Route 19
1924
Two girls and a toddler pose on the side of the street on a sidewalk. Three girls play farther down near a storefront with two cars parked along the street.
Fingerhut Brothers Store
1925
A man poses outside the Fingerhut Brothers grocery and general store.
