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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.
Summer Scenes at Madison Parks and Beaches
August 3, 1953
Boaters passing by through the Tenney Park lock in three motor boats.
Tenney Park Locks Activity
July 4, 1954
Locktender Earl Wood swinging open the heavy lock gate for a speedboat operator passing through the lock on the Yahara River at Tenney Park. A sign above the lock reads: "Boats - 8 MPH."
Mayor Nestingen and Japanese Skiers
January 16, 1961
Japanese skier Kiyotaka Sakai, center, pins a good-will token on the lapel of Madison Mayor Ivan Nestingen, left. Looking on is Yukio Kasaya, also a skier from Japan. They will be participating in ...
"Home Improvement Year" Declaration
April 12, 1956
Madison mayor-elect Ivan Nestingen signs a proclamation announcing 1956 as "Home Improvement Year" as Marvin Reimann, Duane Bowman, and J. Jesse Hyman are looking on.
Farewell Banquet for Nestingen
February 5, 1961
Wendell Phillips, City Council president, presents ex-mayor Ivan Nestingen with a key to the city telling him he would always be welcome in Madison. President John F. Kennedy had appointed Nestinge...
Building Trades Apprenticeship Graduates
November 3, 1959
Attending the Madison area building trades apprenticeship completion banquet are (left to right): Businessmen John Findorff and O.T. Havey; shown with Senator William Proxmire, and Mayor Ivan Nesti...
