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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.
Terrace Entrance, St. Benedict's Convent Mother House
July 7, 1955
Close-up of terrace entrance and tower to St. Benedict's Convent, Mother House, Fox Bluff, 4200 County Highway M.
Dedication of Sisters of St. Benedict Mother-House
1955
Two sisters of St. Benedict before the dedication of the new mother-house. They are standing on the terrace of the convent located on County Highway M near Fox Bluff.
St. Benedict's Convent on Lake Mendota
1955
Aerial view of St. Benedict's convent, mother house, novitiate on the north shore of Lake Mendota (aka Fox Bluff), built in 1953. From 1959 - 1966 it was also a college prep high school for girls....
Masonic Temple Lounge
August 29, 1954
Masonic Temple, 301 Wisconsin Avenue, lounge with lavish furnishings.
Dedication of Sisters of St. Benedict Mother-House
1955
A group of Benedictine nuns singing as the choir at the solemn high Mass of Thanksgiving in their small chapel at their new mother-house located on County Highway M near Fox Bluff.
Univeristy of Wisconsin Classroom
August 29, 1955
Auditorium in the University of Wisconsin Bacteriology Building, 1550 Linden Drive. View from the front.
