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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 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.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Red Gym
circa 1890-1899
Exterior view from across Langdon Street of the Red Gym (Armory or Old Red) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Red Gym Swimming Pool
circa 1890-1899
The "swimming tank" inside the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Red Gym (Armory or Old Red).
Red Gym Running Track
1897
View of the interior running track inside the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Red Gym (Armory or Old Red).
Main Floor of the Red Gym
circa 1890-1899
Elevated interior view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Red Gym (Old Red or Armory) main floor. Gymnastic equipment is set up throughout the large, wooden-floored space.
The Phillips Family
circa 1890-1899
The members of the Phillips family stand on the lawn outside of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Armory (Red Gym or Old Red).
University of Wisconsin-Madison Boathouse
1895
View from Lake Mendota of the University of Wisconsin-Madison boathouse. A large crowd gathers on the porch and landing of the boathouse, perhaps to watch a rowing regatta. The University of Wiscon...
