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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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Elevated View down Wisconsin Avenue
Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue towards Lake Mendota.
Armed Forces Day Parade
May 16, 1953
Slightly elevated view taken from the Capitol Square looking down State Street. There is an unidentified marching group is coming up the middle of the street as part of the Armed Forces Day parade....
Elevated View of Downtown Madison
July 1936
Handwritten on back: "From 10th floor of Tenney Building." There is a clock tower and dome on the Capital City Bank building in the foreground at the corner of S. Pinckney Street and 111 King Stree...
World's Fair Transportation Center
1893
Elevated view of the Illinois Central World's Fair Transportation Center at Van Buren Street. Several pedestrians cross a bridge leading to trains and lake steamers. A horse-drawn carriage passes a...
Orpheum Theatre
April 10, 1927
Elevated view of buildings in the 200 block of State Street, with the Orpheum Theatre as a focal point. The theatre marquee reads "New Orpheum." Next door to the theatre on the right is The Family ...
Traffic on State Street
1930
Slightly elevated view of heavy automobile traffic, delivery trucks and pedestrians on State Street at North Carroll Street. View reaches to Bascom Hill of the University of Wisconsin. Commercial b...
