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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.
Aerial View of Harbor Area
1951
Aerial view of Jones Island and garbage disposal plant.
North and South Harbor Tracts
June 14, 1961
Aerial view of North and South Harbor Tracts, looking north from South Pier No. 2. There are skyscrapers in the background. there are multiple items of machinery. Ships are along the shoreline.
Aerial View of Harbor Area
1950
Harbor area of Jones Island and garbage disposal plant, Stratton Grain Co., and more.
Milwaukee Yacht Club
1940
View from hill of the yacht club, with Lake Michigan behind. In the distance is the jetty, and the road along the shoreline is N. Lincoln Memorial Drive. There are boats moored near the club, and o...
Milwaukee Harbor
1940
Aerial view of city, river and harbor. Two smokestacks are on either side of the river mouth.
Aerial View of Lincoln Memorial Drive
1953
Aerial view looking north from the foot of Milwaukee's main thoroughfare, Wisconsin Avenue. Lincoln Memorial Drive winds its way along the lagoon in Juneau Park. In the background is the Milwaukee ...
