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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.
Airplane Crash in Lake Mendota
July 18, 1944
Rescue of airplane which has crashed into Lake Mendota near the north shore. View of the airplane from the water toward the shore and Camp Wakanda. Tom Langlois, 17, 213 North Randall Avenue, was ...
Airplane Crash in Lake Mendota
July 18, 1944
Dozens of boys at Camp Wakanda on the north shore of Lake Mendota watch rescue work on an airplane which has crashed into the lake near shore. Tom Langlois, 17, 213 North Randall Avenue, was serio...
Ice Damage on Shoreline
March 16, 1949
Ice damage to the shoreline of Lake Mendota at Warner Park.
Ice Damage to Shoreline
March 16, 1949
Ice damage to boats along the shoreline of Lake Mendota at Warner Park.
Inland Lakes Regatta on Lake Mendota
August 5, 1950
Class C and E sailboats sailing on Lake Mendota as the Mendota Yacht Club of Madison hosts the Inland Lakes Regatta.
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.
