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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.
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.
State Street
View from under the Badger Liquor awning over a storefront of a woman crossing an intersection at State Street. Across the street on the right are storefronts along the street, with signs including...
Pedestrian and Automobile Congestion on State Street
September 8, 1969
A view up State Street from the corner of Lake and State Streets showing heavy automobile and pedestrian traffic. The Wisconsin State Capitol and the Orpheum Theater are in the background. A number...
Crowds on Capitol Square
December 6, 1944
Christmas shoppers crossing the street (walking away from the photographer) at the corner of King Street on the Capitol Square in front of Kresge's, 25-27 East Main Street.
Madison Street Scene
October 1946
Street scene showing cars parked at parking meters on South Carroll Street on Capitol Square.
Crowds on Capitol Square
December 6, 1944
Christmas shoppers crossing the street at the corner of King Street on the Capitol Square in front of Kresge's, 25-27 East Main Street.
Opening of the Park Motor Inn on Madison's Capitol Square
May 2, 1963
Street view of the new Park Motor Inn on Madison's Capitol Square.
