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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 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.
Fire Damage to Home
March 13, 1949
Police Officer Walter E. Randall looking at fire damage to the bedroom of Dorothy Meager, 111 North Blair Street.
Ice Damage to Shoreline
March 16, 1949
Ice damage to boats along the shoreline of Lake Mendota at Warner Park.
Fire Fighter Performing First Aid
June 6, 1944
Fire fighter demonstrating the procedure to give artificial respiration.
Flood Damage
July 20, 1948
Flood damage to the interior of Lark Cocktail Lounge at 2554 University Avenue.
Doctor Examining a Young Patient
March 4, 1949
A male doctor examines a young female patient while two women look on.
Top Hat Night Club Fire Damage
April 1, 1947
Ruins of Top Hat nightclub, Middleton Road, destroyed in a $100,000 fire. Middleton police are investigating the possibility of arson.