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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.
University of Wisconsin Hydraulics Laboratory
July 9, 1954
Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin Hydraulics Laboratory at 660 North Park Street. Automobiles are parked along Lake Mendota shoreline in front of the laboratory, with Picnic Point in the...
Mendota Court
September 23, 1947
Two cars and a delivery truck parked on Mendota Court. The truck has an advertisement for Camel cigarettes.
Kroger Store
December 30, 1954
Exterior view of the Madison East Kroger grocery store at 2829 East Washington Avenue.
Tanks at Hydraulics Laboratory
March 5, 1929
Tank at Hydraulics Laboratory, 660 N. Park Street, before moving up the ramp. Taken from hill looking toward Lake Mendota, at the University of Wisconsin.
Madison Street Scene
October 1946
Street scene showing cars parked at parking meters on South Carroll Street on Capitol Square.
Wisconsin State Capitol Viewed from East Washington Avenue
February 9, 1954
View of the one-hundred block of East Washington Avenue in Madison. The State Capitol building is in the background.
