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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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Madison Free Library
January 28, 1954
A man is studying material from the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
Madison Free Library
January 28, 1954
A student is looking through the card catalog (or what the newspaper calls "the library's key, a simple cross-filer system") at the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
Madison Free Library
January 28, 1954
A girl is sitting and working with material in the reference room of the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
Madison Free Library
January 28, 1954
View between bookshelves towards a man finding a place to pause and rest in the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
Madison Free Library Bookmobile
February 9, 1954
Timmy and Joan Becker are reading a book by the shelves in the Madison Free Library bookmobile, which is parked in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new city housing development.
We Saw You . . . at the Library
September 22, 1957
A man sitting and reading from a book at the Madison Public Central Library.
