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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.
Circus Performers in Front of the Wisconsin Historical Society
1908
Circus performers posed in front of the Wisconsin Historical Society, then known as the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Men Following a Horse-Drawn Cart
1909
A long column of men following a horse-drawn cart on State Street. The Wisconsin Historical Society, then known as the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, is visible in the background. The man i...
Winter View of the Armory and Gymnasium
circa 1900-1909
Winter view of the Armory and Gymnasium, a.k.a. the Red Gym, taken from the front of the Wisconsin Historical Society, then known as the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. There is fresh snow o...
Chicago and North Western Railroad Passenger Station
1909
View across railroad tracks of the original Chicago and North Western Railroad passenger station, 219 South Blair Street at East Wilson Street. A large crowd of people are waiting on the platform. ...
Iceboats on Lake Mendota
1896
A gathering of iceboats and their captains on Lake Mendota.
