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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.
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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.
Astronomer at Washburn Observatory
June 17, 1947
View looking up towards open dome as Olin Eggen, research astronomer, looks through the telescope at Washburn Observatory on the campus of University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Picnic Point from Observatory Hill
June 17, 1947
Picnic Point from Observatory Hill on the campus of University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin Home Economics
December 9, 1947
Exterior view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Management house at 1430 Linden Drive. Seniors majoring in home economics were required to live for two weeks in the house. Washburn Observ...
Arboretum Lilac Bushes
May 26, 1947
A nook in the lilac garden in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum where 130 different varieties bloom.
WHA-FM Tower
February 8, 1947
WHA-FM tower being built on top of Radio Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Elizabeth Waters Dormitory Parlor
September 24, 1947
Six women sitting by the fireplace in the parlor at Elizabeth Waters Dormitory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.