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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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Horse-Drawn Wagon and Men
1885
View of a street scene featuring people standing on a horse-drawn wagon in the foreground, and a restaurant in the background.
Livery Stable on First Street
Horse-drawn snowplow in front of the City Livery, and blanketed horses with sleighs and wagons in the street.
Main Street
1900
View down unpaved Main Street, with a machine and repair shop on the right and multiple horse-drawn vehicles traveling along the road.
National Hotel
1870
The National Hotel on town square off of Main Street. A group of people and horse-drawn vehicles are in front of the hotel.
View Down Tomahawk Street
1900
Panoramic view from right side of street of downtown area. In the right foreground is a man walking near the curb near a sign for a bakery. Further down the sidewalk are signs for "Paints Oils and ...
Street Scene
1905
Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts, an electric cable car and pedestrians. Electric power lines hang over the street. Business signs read: "First National Bank," "Brown Sisters Millin...
