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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.
State of Wisconsin
1912
This map from the U.S. General Land Office depicts the state of Wisconsin in 1912. Railroads, counties, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, U.S. Land Offices, Indian reservations, military reservat...
Map of the State of Wisconsin
1896
This color map shows counties, county seats, cities, towns, proposed and completed railroads, lighthouses, life saving stations, and U.S. Land Offices. Also included in the map are the Red Cliff, L...
Forest protection activity map as of January 1937
1937
This map shows the Wisconsin Conservation Department forest protection divisions and the locations of state forests, national forests, Indian reservations, and state fire towers.
Wisconsin transportation map : highways, railroads, canals, air lanes, and dredged channels
1944
This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and public land connecting roads are also identifi...
Forest protection activity map as of May 1, 1938 : Wisconsin
May 1, 1938
This map shows the locations of Wisconsin Conservation Department forest protection districts and cooperative areas, state forests, national forests, Indian reservations, and state fire towers in t...
Farmer's 4th sheet, or Map of Wisconsin, Iowa and Northern Part of Illinois
1848
Wisconsin became the thirtieth state in 1848. Drawn that same year, this map shows township lines, roads, villages, mills, railroads, prairies, swamps, canals, geological lines, county seats, light...
