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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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Birds Eye View from Cotton Mill Tower
circa 1900-1909
Photographic postcard of an elevated view of a lake with boathouses along the shore and dwellings in the distance. Caption reads: "Birds Eye View from Cotton Mill Tower, Beaver Dam, Wis."
Upper Woolen Mill Dam
circa 1900-1909
Postcard view of a dam with a mill behind it. Caption reads: "Upper Woolen Mill Dam, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin."
Bird's Eye View, Holcombe, Wis.
1908
Elevated view of Holcombe, with the dam on the Chippewa River in the foreground. Caption reads: "Birds-Eye View, Holcombe, Wis."
Industrial Sector
1905
Caption reads: "Birds Eye View, from cotton mill tower, Beaver Dam, Wis." Two churches are in the background, and there are smokestacks and a water tower near industrial buildings.
The New Dam
1916
Colorized postcard view of a dam on a river. There is a factory behind the trees in the background. Caption reads: "The New Dam, Beaver Dam, Wis."
