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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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Lilacs Blooming in the U.W. Arboretum
May 16, 1958
Dan Rupnow sniffing the lilac blossoms in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.
Madison Apartment Fire
February 19, 1959
Madison firemen fighting an apartment fire at 146 West Johnson street.
Laurie Stein in Her Crib
July 19, 1954
Laurie Stein, daughter of photographer Edwin Stein.
Aerial View University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum
1930
Aerial view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum including the surrounding residential neighborhoods.
Kitchen Fire
May 3, 1957
A fire chief is surveying the damage from a kitchen fire at 906 East Mifflin Street in Madison, while the fire fighters are sweeping up with brooms.
Firemen Activities at the Central Fire Station
January 20, 1954
Chatting about previous fire fighting experiences are (from left to right): Captain Arthur Wilcox, Firemen Russell Mani, and Wilbur Wright. They are sitting in an office at the fire station in fron...
