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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.
Edgewater Hotel Opening
April 23, 1948
Edgewater Hotel manager, Austin Falkner, watches Dr. Donald Bowle register as the first guest at the hotel. Dr. Bowle is professor of the department of anatomy at the University of Manitoba, Winnip...
Edgewater Hotel Garden Entrance
April 26, 1948
Interior view of flower garden entrance to the new Edgewater hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue, America's newest hotel.
Edgewater Hotel Opening
April 26, 1948
Emerald-walled living room in a guest suite in the new Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue. The hotel has sixty-six suites made up of 150 rooms; each room has a view of Lake Mendota. All rooms ar...
UW Hydraulics Laboratory
July 9, 1954
View of the University of Wisconsin Hydraulics Laboratory at 660 N. Park Street, seen from Lake Mendota. Automobiles are parked along the shore.
Aerial Photograph of Brush Fires
April 21, 1948
Aerial photograph of two brush fires on the north side of Lake Mendota. Taken over the west side of Madison looking northwest across Lake Mendota.
Governor's Suite in Edgewater Hotel
April 26, 1948
View of the bedroom of the Governor's Suite in the new Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue. The room is decorated in restful browns and beiges, accented by orange draperies and a pale white oak d...
