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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.
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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.
Tenney Park Bridge
August 1, 1954
People look at the Yahara River from the Tenney Park bridge on Sherman Avenue.
Aerial View of Tenney Park
1930
Aerial view of Tenney Park, including the lagoon, residences surrounding the park, and the shoreline of Lake Mendota on bottom left.
Tenney Park Lock Opening
August 22, 1959
Mayor Ivan Nestingen leads the parade of boats that opened the new Tenney Park lock on Saturday morning.
Summer Scenes at Madison Parks and Beaches
August 3, 1953
Jimmy Yerges fishing on the breakwater at Tenney Park.
Summer Scenes at Madison Parks and Beaches
August 3, 1953
Boaters passing by through the Tenney Park lock in three motor boats.
David Bickel Fishing
September 10, 1948
David Bickel, 414 Clemons Avenue, fishing on the shore of Tenney Park lagoon.
