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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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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.
Wisconsin State Capitol "Wealth" Sculpture
"Abundance," statue by Karl Bitter, at the Wisconsin State Capitol, overlooking Wisconsin Avenue. There is a curtain in the background.
Wisconsin State Capitol East Pediment
circa 1910-1919
Wisconsin State Capitol East Pediment, "Liberty supported by the Law," by Karl Bitter. There is a curtain in the background.
Wisconsin State Capitol Lamppost
circa 1910-1919
Lamppost outside of the Wisconsin State Capitol. In the entrance cove of the building on the right is a man wearing a suit, standing partially in shadow.
"Wisconsin" Statue on the Wisconsin State Capitol
1915
Daniel Chester French's statue "Wisconsin" on the dome of the Fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (the Third Capitol in Madison).
Raising the Statue "Wisconsin"
July 1914
Raising the statue "Wisconsin" to the top of the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol building.
Wisconsin State Capitol Dome Construction
1911
Elevated view over trees towards the Wisconsin State Capitol during construction of the dome. The wing in the foreground is the new west wing. The old north wing is on the left.
