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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.
Attribution
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.
Wisconsin Historical Society Library Exterior
February 14, 1945
Historical Society Library, exterior view of the U-shaped space behind the building that will be used for expansion.
State High School Basketball Tournament
March 16, 1950
Crowd at the state high school basketball tournament in the University of Wisconsin fieldhouse.
Spiegel Catalog Order Office
October 27, 1949
Crowd of shoppers in front of Spiegel's Catalog Order Office, 427 State Street. Also shown are Bluteau's Wholesale Market, 421 State St. & Mack-Olson Food Shop, 425 State St.
Monarch Machine Shop Building
July 28, 1945
Monarch Machine Shop, Inc., 2530 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Spiegel Catalog Order Office
October 27, 1949
Interior of Spiegel Catalog Order Office, 427 State Street, with a crowd of shoppers.
