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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.
Mock Convention
November 1, 1968
A mock presidential political convention at a middle school.
Loan Collection Day
1947
Loan collection day at the Memorial Union. Paintings were loaned to students for exhibition.
Paul Bunyan Room — Memorial Union
September 14, 1968
View through doorway of people relaxing at the Memorial Union in the Paul Bunyan room.
Fudge Party
1890
College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
Aerial View of Elizabeth Waters Dormitory on Shoreline
1948
Aerial view of the Elizabeth Waters women's dormitory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The dorm is also referred to as "Liz" or "The Rock". A long pier extends into Lake Mendota.