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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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State Normal School
Exterior of "Old Main" at the State Normal School, founded in 1868. A dirt road leads to the main entrance, flanked by columns. A central tower is above the entrance.
Industrial Plant
1900
View across water toward the back of an industrial plant. A smokestack is behind a building on the left.
Wisconsin State Normal School
circa 1910
Exterior of "Old Main" at the State Normal School, founded in 1868. The view from an adjacent road features the brick building's two towers with additional roads leading to the main entrance at left.
Industrial Plant
View across water toward the back and side of the plant. Three young men in bathing suits sit on a wall over the bridge to the right.
Walworth Hotel
Exterior of Walworth Hotel. Stairs lead to a porch where a man sits and signs that read "Billiard Hall" and "New Walworth Buffet" are near the side entrance.
View of Pond
View of a pond and surrounding banks overgrown with foliage. A building is in the background on the left.