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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.
Picnic Point
May 5, 1931
View across Lake Mendota towards Picnic Point, framed by a willow tree, and a rowboat pulled up on the shoreline.
Willow Walk
Cyanotype image of a woman in a rowboat on the shore of the University Willow Walk, near picnic point.
Picnic Point North Shore
The northern shore of Picnic Point in the middle of winter.
High Water Damage Along Lake Mendota
April 27, 1950
View of damage to the breakwater behind the home of Dr. J.G. Frisch, 1653 Sherman Avenue, caused by high water and waves driven by strong winds.
