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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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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.
Night View of Madison
circa 1940-1949
Night view across Lake Monona towards downtown Madison.
Wisconsin State Capitol from Lake Monona
circa 1940-1949
A tree-framed view of the Wisconsin State Capitol from the shore of Lake Monona.
Wisconsin State Capitol at Night
1940
Panorama view, elevated, of the Wisconsin State Capitol at night from the roof of a building on Monona Avenue. The First National Bank and the Belmont Hotel are on the right. On the left is the Par...
Dead Fish in the Yahara River
September 20, 1949
Two Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees removing dead fish from the Yahara River near the Johnson Street bridge. The fish were evidently killed by industrial wastes that entered the...
Boats on Yahara River
June 11, 1960
Three motor boats cruise on the Yahara river near the East Johnson Street bridge. A concrete boat ramp is visible at right with three additional motor boats visible, including one with the word 'Po...
