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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.
Pumping Station for Lake Forest at Arboretum
1950
University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Arboretum station was built when the site was a proposed site for a model city called Lake Forest, a scheme which failed in 1921.
Mendota Lake Front Development Plan
1939
The proposed Mendota Lake Front Development Plan, William Kaeser, architect.
Aerial View of Arboretum and Isthmus
1961
View over beltline of University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum along Lake Wingra. Lake Mendota is on upper left, and Lake Monona is on the right, with the downtown on the isthmus in between.
Aerial View of Universitiy of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum
1930
Aerial view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum including a portion of Lake Wingra and surrounding residential neighborhoods.
Plan for University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum
December 1935
Plan for the Michael B. Olbrich Memorial Entrance to the Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum and Wild Life Refuge.
Aerial View University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum
1930
Aerial view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum including the surrounding residential neighborhoods.
