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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.
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.
Elevated View down State Street
Elevated view down State Street. The Orpheum Theatre sign is visible, and in the distance is Lake Mendota.
First Flowers
1955
Olbrich Gardens viewed through the tulip garden towards Lake Monona. Two women and a man are walking on the sidewalk towards an open structure.
Wisconsin Avenue Bridge
1900
View looking up Wisconsin Avenue from the bridge. Many pedestrians, streetcars, and horse-drawn vehicles are visible.
The Yards in Winter
1950
View down railroad tracks towards a tall building. Smoke is billowing from the locomotive.
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...
Saturday Chore
1977
View down hill towards a man washing his car in the alley of a neighborhood. Rooftops are in the background.
