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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.
Attribution
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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Wisconsin Historical Society Periodical Reading Room
1901
SHSW Periodical Reading Room, showing mezzanine stacks, original tables and lamps, and coffered ceiling treatment. Among the University of Wisconsin students seated at the tables is Charles McCarth...
Charles McCarthy and Legislative Reference Library Staff
August 8, 1906
Dr. Charles R. McCarthy and staff at the Legislative Reference Library.
Madison Free Library
January 28, 1954
A girl is sitting and working with material in the reference room of the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
Madison Public Library
November 15, 1945
Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The view includes the Reference Room, Information Desk, and Return Window with three librarians and one patron.
Madison Public Library
November 15, 1945
Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The view shows the Reference Room, Information Desk, one librarian and two patrons.
Madison Free Library
January 28, 1954
A man is studying material from the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
