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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.
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 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
A man is reading a book while sitting in a chair at 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 Public Library
November 15, 1945
Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The view shows the Reference Room, Information Desk, one librarian and two patrons.
Madison Free Library Bookmobile
February 9, 1954
Sylvia Nuckles checking out a book from Bert Rogers, the driver and circulation staff for the Madison Free Library bookmobile.
