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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 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.
Varsity Welcome on Bascom Hill
September 26, 1930
Elevated view of the varsity welcome on Bascom Hill for new students. The Lincoln Monument is in the foreground.
Varsity Welcome on Bascom Hill
September 26, 1930
Varsity welcome on Bascom Hill for new students. The Lincoln Monument can be seen in the foreground.
Wisconsin State Capitol from Bascom Hill
May 20, 1933
Wisconsin State Capitol from University of Wisconsin-Madison Bascom Hall on Lincoln Terrace.
Crowd Gathered on Bascom Hill
April 4, 1968
Elevated view of a large crowd gathered at the top of Bascom Hill in reaction to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the distance.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus from Lincoln Terrace
1948
Elevated view of University of Wisconsin-Madison's upper campus from Lincoln Terrace down Bascom Hill. The Wisconsin State Capitol can be seen in the distance.
Christmas Tree on Bascom Hill
1960
Elevated view looking east from Lincoln Terrace on Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Lincoln Monument is in the foreground and a lighted Christmas tree is on the snow-c...
