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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.
Attribution
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.
Fighting the Fire
September 19, 1959
View towards a firefighter standing with his back to the camera as he is aiming a fire hose towards the flames.
Watching the Hotel Washington Fire
February 18, 1996
View towards a small group of people watching as fire destroys the Hotel Washington. Behind them is an American Red Cross disaster services vehicle.
Smokey Poster Design #2
1944
Poster design of Clarke-McNary Forest Protection Program depicting Smokey Bear pouring water on a campfire.
Toboggan Ride
September 13, 1949
Winter scene with Lawrence College students tobogganing at Rib Mountain near Wausau.
Desert Prayer
circa 1940-1949
A camel stands on the desert sands near Biskra, Algeria, as two men pause to face Mecca and pray.
Husking Corn
circa 1940-1949
Families sit amid piles of corn and remove the husks in the Meskovesd district near Budapest, Hungary.
