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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 Ruins after Collapse
November 1883
View of the third Wisconsin State Capitol showing the ruins of the South Wing addition after it collapsed during construction.
Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Construction Disaster
1883
The third Wisconsin State Capitol after the unfinished South Wing collapsed on November 8, 1883. Defective workmanship and shoddy construction materials caused the nearly finished wing to collapse,...
Surveying Fire Damage to the Third Wisconsin State Capitol
February 1904
Ruins of the Senate Chamber at the Wisconsin State Capitol after the fire of February 26-27.
Surveying Fire Damage
February 1904
Ruins of the second floor of the North Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, looking south, after the fire. The blaze nearly destroyed the entire building and led to the construction of the pr...
Surveying Fire Damage
February 1904
Ruins of the Senate Chamber in the Wisconsin State Capitol after the fire of February 26-27. Here the damage was almost total, leaving only a piece of plaster molding.
Fourth State Capitol under Construction
1912
Wisconsin State Capitol (fourth capitol, third in Madison) under construction. View from South Hamilton Street.
