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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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Cross-Written Letter
October 31, 1858
Letter written both horizontally and vertically, from Catherine Steel of Genesee, Wisconsin to her sister-in-law Lilias.
Cabin Drawing in Thomas Steel Letter
January 12, 1844
A pen and ink drawing of a log cabin, pork casks, and a washtub, contained in a letter written by Thomas Steel, Waukesha County farmer and physician, to his father, James Steel, of London, England.
Steel's Farm Property Letter
November 26, 1846
A drawing by Thomas Steel of his farm property contained in a letter Steel wrote to his father James Steel.
Blitzstein Musical Sketch
1938
The third page of a musical sketch by Marc Blitzstein for "Cradle Will Rock." The top section of the music is crossed out.
Steel Letter with Map
January 12, 1844
Letter from Thomas Steel, Waukesha County physician and farmer, to his father, James Steel, in London, England. It includes a hand-drawn map of Milwaukee County.
