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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.
Walk-in-the-Water
March 1882
Engraving after a drawing of the steamer Walk-in-the-Water, the first steamboat to sail the Great Lakes.
Steamer Thomas Jefferson
1895
Drawing of the Great Lakes steamer Thomas Jefferson. Caption: "Thomas Jefferson 1834, Built at Erie, Pa., wood, 428 tons, by S. Jenkins, for C. M. Reed and others, Buffalo and Detroit route. Disman...
Government Snagboat
November 2, 1889
Engraved view of a government snagboat removing obstructions from the channel of a western river.
Steamboat Western World
1895
Drawing of the steamboat Western World. Several people stand on the deck. An American flag and pennants reading "Western World," "Detroit," "Michigan Central," "Buffalo," and "N.Y. Central" fly on ...
Walk-in-the-Water
1895
Drawing of the Great Lakes steamer Walk-in-the-Water being approached by several small boats and canoes. Caption: "Walk-in-the-Water 1818, The first commercially successful steamboat on the Great ...
Steamboat Michigan
1895
Drawing of the lake steamer, Michigan with another vessel in the background.
