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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.
Summer Scenes at Madison Parks and Beaches
August 3, 1953
Karen Jeffs of Alberta, Canada, plays in the sand at Vilas Park.
Vilas Park Beach
July 4, 1949
A toddler sits in a bouncy chair at the Vilas Park beach.
Penn Park Sand Castles
July 28, 1950
Six children are shown playing and building sand castles in a sand box at Penn Park. Left to right, they are Dulcie Snell, Tommy Smith, Joe Valenza, Tony Scalissi, Mack Snell (hidden) and Bill McC...
Vilas Park Beach
July 4, 1949
A man taking a picture of two women at the Vilas Park beach.
Children Playing in Snow
December 6, 1947
Winter scene with Steven (left) and David Hanson playing in the snow near their house at 1217 Vilas Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin, after a recent snowfall.
Summer Scenes at Madison Parks and Beaches
August 3, 1953
Tom Carroll and his son Alan play in the water at the Vilas Park beach.
