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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.
Flood Damage
July 20, 1948
Flood damage to the interior of Lark Cocktail Lounge at 2554 University Avenue.
Flood Damage
July 20, 1948
View from nearby roof of flood damage which caused the collapse of the roof of the Lark Cocktail Lounge at 2554 University Avenue.
Madison Eagles Aerie 623 New Clubhouse
April 17, 1954
Bar and cocktail lounge at the new Fraternal Order of Madison Eagles Aerie 623 clubhouse, 1236 Jenifer Street.
Dane County Jail - Circular Stairway
June 1, 1948
Dane County Jail showing metal circular stairway, the only exit from the cell blocks of the jail's second and third floors.
1948 Christmas Seal Design
November 15, 1948
The design for the 1948 Christmas seal.
Flooded Park Street
July 20, 1948
Flooded South Park Street underpass, with car stalled in three feet of water. A train is on the railroad bridge above. A young boy and girl wearing bathing suits are standing near the stalled car.
