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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.
Building Fire
January 13, 1929
Flames light up the night as fire fighters hose down the Jeffery Brothers Automobile Preparing and Storage building at 621 University Avenue in an attempt to douse the fire, while spectators watch.
Ruins, Royal Airport Hangar
August 16, 1932
People looking at the ruins of the Royal Airport hangar and office after a fire. Viewed from the southwest.
Copy of Photo of Wisconsin Refectory Building Fire
May 4, 1927
University of Wisconsin Refectory building fire. Fire was June 1926. Now Carson Gulley Commons.
Ellefson Lumber Company
May 16, 1929
Ellefson Lumber Co. store and supply building, located at 2016 Winnebago Street.
Fur Storage Vault
March 18, 1933
Kessnich's Department Store fur storage vault, 201-203 State Street.
The Texas Company U.S.A.
August 6, 1929
Texas Company U.S.A. (Texaco) office building and storage tanks bulk plant, 919 E. Main Street. Text on print reads: "Texas Company, Capitol Oil Co."
