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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.
Attribution
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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.
Landscape View
Landscape view of trees on a hill and fields in the background, probably from the top of Castle Mound looking southeast.
The Gorge on Bad River
View of the gorge on Bad River with fallen trees over the water.
Big Manitou Falls
circa 1910-1919
Elevated view looking across towards Big Manitou Falls, a waterfall in Pattison State Park. The falls are surrounded by trees and rocks. Pattison State Park is a 1,436-acre Wisconsin state park sou...
Copper Falls Waterfall
Elevated view of Copper Falls on the Bad River. Four people, one man and three women, are posing on rocks at the top of the falls. Surrounding burned-over forest area.
Mill Falls
View of a mill dam and falls on the Saluda River with buildings in the background.
Elk Falls
Overhead view of the large roaring Elk Falls on the Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada.