| These online collections feature historical pictures, maps
and documents. The Library page
contains links to more online digital collections. |
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| American Journeys
Wisconsin Historical Society.
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. |
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| American Memory Library of Congress. American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. |
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| Great
Lakes Maritime History Project Over 7,000 files documenting ships that have sailed on the Great Lakes since 1679 including diesel-powered vessels, sailing ships, barges, cargo vessels, passenger boats, military vessels, and pleasure craft. |
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| Greetings
from Milwaukee UWM. The collection presents 200 postcards from the Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection housed at the Archives
Department of UWM. The digital collection focuses on the postcards with images of Milwaukee produced by Milwaukee publishers from 1900 to 1959. |
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| Milwaukee
Neighborhoods: Photos and Maps 1885 -1992 Presented by UW-Milwaukee, this collection includes images of Milwaukee neighborhoods and provides documentation of the city's development from the mid-1880s to the early 1990s. |
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| New
York Public Library Digital Gallery Provides access to over 300,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. |
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| Our
Documents National Archives. Images of 100 milestone documents of American history. |
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| State
of Wisconsin Collection The State of Wisconsin Collection brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary materials: writings about the State of Wisconsin and unique or valuable materials that relate to its history and ongoing development. |
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| Wisconsin
Historical Images Wisconsin Historical Society collection consists of 19th and 20th century photographs, paintings, posters, advertising material, ephemera, and political cartoons. |
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| Wisconsin
Electronic Reader Stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals and tidbits from Wisconsin history. Many first hand accounts - profusely illustrated. |
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| Wisconsin
Pioneer Experience The Wisconsin Pioneer Experience is a digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th
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