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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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Badger Bus Coach
April 28, 1949
A Badger Bus Company bus picking up passengers on Fairchild Street due to the Union Bus Station being closed because of a Northland Greyhound Bus strike.
Fire Fighter Performing First Aid
June 6, 1944
Fire fighter demonstrating the procedure to give artificial respiration.
S.S. Kresge Store in Westgate Shopping Center
March 9, 1960
Interior view of the S.S. Kresge store, the first store open for business in the new Westgate Shopping Center.
Union Bus Station
April 28, 1949
Elevated view across street towards the Union Bus Station, 122 West Washington Avenue, with closed depot doors during a strike of the Northland Greyhound bus lines strike.
1919 Ladder Fire Truck
May 13, 1947
1919 ladder fire truck at Fire Station No. 7, 2410 Monroe Street. Fire fighters (L to R), Capt. Arthur Emerson, Joseph Roberts, Harold Klein, Arthur Halverson, and Daryl Griffin.
Aerial View of a Capitol Square Intersection
May 5, 1947
Aerial view of Main, King, and Pinckney Streets intersection on Madison's Capitol Square. View is looking south down Pinckney Street. Kresge's, 27 East Main Street, can be seen on the right.
