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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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Telescope at Washburn Observatory
November 8, 1926
Small telescope at University of Wisconsin-Madison Washburn Observatory.
Large Telescope
November 8, 1926
Large telescope at University of Wisconsin Washburn Observatory.
Astronomer at Washburn Observatory
June 17, 1947
View looking up towards open dome as Olin Eggen, research astronomer, looks through the telescope at Washburn Observatory on the campus of University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Prof. C. Morse Huffer with Telescope
August 14, 1931
Prof. C. Morse Huffer is standing with the 20 foot telescope in the Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
New Equipment at Washburn Observatory
February 10, 1933
A man is sitting near a new photo electric cell equipment at Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Also shown is a portion of the observatory's telescope.
Washburn Observatory
October 3, 1976
Exterior of Washburn Observatory, a gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Cadwallader C. Washburn, on Observatory Hill overlooking Lake Mendota, off Observatory Drive. It was built in 18...
