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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.
Harbor Light
1951
The Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse entered service in 1918, was automated in 1971 and sold in 2009. The lighthouse is located on the end of a 400 foot breakwater. Snow and trees are along the Lake...
Snow Sculpture
1964
Snow drifting on Lake Winnebago seen through trees on the shoreline.
Winter Shore Line
1952
View of the shoreline of Geneva Lake in winter. Ice has built up on the foliage on the shore.
High Cliff Park
1962
Pine trees at the edge of the rocky shoreline in High Cliff Park on Lake Michigan.
Rockbound Shore
1956
View along a rocky shoreline lined with trees. The stump of a tree is in the foreground.