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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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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.
Elevated View from Wisconsin State Capitol to Bascom Hill
1954
Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol looking west up State Street toward the University of Wisconsin. Frozen Lake Monona is on the right.
State Street and the Wisconin State Capitol
1957
View up State Street towards the Wisconsin State Capitol taken from the West Johnson Street intersection. Businesses include the Orpheum Theatre, Arenz, and Ward's. There is a billboard for Old Fit...
State Street toward the Wisconsin State Capitol
1954
A view down State Street looking towards the Wisconsin State Capitol.
State Street Side of the Capitol Square
Aerial view of the Capitol Square, with Capitol Park and part of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Manchester's is on the corner of Mifflin Street at Wisconsin Avenue, and Mifflin, Carroll, and State st...
Capitol Square
1955
Elevated view of Capitol Square, looking northwest up Carroll Street at its intersection with Main Street.
Aerial View of Downtown Madison
Aerial view of Madison, including the Capitol Square on the left at Mifflin and State Street, and Central High School, the light-colored building in the foreground on the right.
