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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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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.
Girl with School Pennant
A girl holds a large school pennant that reads, "Vassar," a college that was founded in 1861.
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.
Telescope at Washburn Observatory
1930
Telescope at Washburn Observatory with man at controls.
Vassar College
View across lawn toward the campus art museum. Large arched windows run along the facade, and the main entrance is nestled into a corner tower. The brickwork contains many decorative elements, most...
Scene from Golden Ingots
circa 1877
Scene from Golden Ingots at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, founded by the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1847. Costumed students act outdoors in a wooded area. Caption reads: "Scene from Go...
Mud Fight at Cornell University
View of a mud fight at Cornell University, which opened in 1868. A group of men struggle in the mud.