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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.
William Skinner and Sons Silk Mill
The William Skinner and Sons Silk Mill, founded in 1848, stands along the left bank of a canal. A bridge crosses the water in the foreground.
First Level Canal
View of the First Level Canal lined with industrial buildings featuring a paper mill,founded in 1882, on the right. A sign on the buildings reads, "Whiting Paper Company, Ledgers, Linens, Bonds, a...
Industrial View
View across an open field looking toward Bald Mountain Furniture Company and Angle Silk Mills Plant.
The Village Green
A fence surrounds "The Village Green," a small park with a monument.
Wychmere Windmill
View of the Old Mill at Wychmere Harbor, known as Nickerson's Mill. The windmill was moved to Dennisport in 1903.
