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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.
Elevated View of Wells Street
1951
Elevated view from the First Wisconsin National Bank Building, down Wells Street toward the Milwaukee County Court House. Commerce office on lower left.
Milwaukee River
View down river toward a bridge. On the right are buildings lining the river with billboards and signs.
Wells Street Viaduct
1915
Elevated view of the Wells Street Viaduct. Caption reads: "Wells Street Viaduct, Milwaukee."
Wells Building
circa 1905
Elevated view of the Wells Building. Caption reads: "Wells Building, Milwaukee."
Wells Building
1910
Elevated view of the Wells Building on a street corner. Caption reads: "Wells Bldg, Milwaukee, Wis."
Usinger Sausage Factory
April 11, 1937
1030 N. Third Street, seen from State Street Bridge. Signs for the building are on the top floor. More billboards can be seen on buildings in the background.
