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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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A New Map of New Hampshire
1791
This detailed map of New Hampshire shows counties, cities, mountains, highlands, lakes, and rivers. The acres given to Dartmouth College are labeled far in the northern reaches of the state, while ...
Old Cheshire Covered Bridge
A view of Old Cheshire Covered Bridge over the Conneticut River between Charlestown, New Hampshire, and Springfield, Vermont.
An Accurate Map of New Hampshire in New England, from a Late Survey
1781
This map shows New Hampshire, including present-day Maine, and surrounding regions. The map shows borders, cities, numerous forts, the country of the Iroquois, mountains, rivers, and lakes. A handw...
New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission Travel Poster
1936
An original lithograph promoting New Hampshire as the "Land of Scenic Splendor." The poster features the artist Maxwell Parrish's depiction of a New Hampshire landscape comprised of a lake or strea...
Description of Virginia
1675
Three maps found within John Speed's atlas, A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World. The first map shows Virginia and Maryland oriented with north to the right. The second depicts New Engl...
Petition for repealing the laws regulating the state reform school
1862
Petitioners, the Board of Supervisors for Milwaukee County, request to repeal the law that requires counties to pay $1 a week for the care and expenses of convicts sent to the State Reform School f...
