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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.
Octagon House
1948
Exterior view of the Octagon House, built by John Richards, an early local lawyer.
Octagon House
1912
Exterior view of the Octagon House. Caption reads: "The Octagon House. Built 1852 by Hon. John Richards on Richards Hill. Watertown, Wis."
Octagon House
1951
Exterior view of the Octagon House, built by the Hon. John Richards and completed in about 1852.
Octagon House Model
1948
A model of the Richards' Octagon House, showing the original structure of the porches.
