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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.
Sewage Disposal Plant's Sprinkling Filters
circa 1916
The sprinkling filters under construction at the sewage disposal plant.
Gwinnette Court
circa 1916
Gwinnette Court two-room tenement houses, which were inhabited by twelve families. "Note the filthy condition of the front yard." These were eliminated by an urban renewal project in about 1955. Th...
Sewage Disposal Plant and Settling Basins
circa 1916
The sewage disposal plant showing the settling basins and colloidal. The main pumping station for the sewage was situated near the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul tracks, just below the Yahara Rive...
Woman Rolling Dough on Countertop
circa 1916
Woman standing in a kitchen rolling dough on a countertop.
City of Madison's New Leaf Loader
October 11, 1950
Pictured is the city of Madison street department's new $4,000 leaf loader during operations in the 12th Ward. The suction unit, which is like a huge "vacuum cleaner," sucks up and grinds the leave...
Leon A. Smith
June 12, 1944
Portrait of Leon A. Smith, Madison's water superintendent since 1916.
