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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.
William F. Vilas House
1939
View across yard towards the William F. Vilas house, 12 East Gilman Street.
Brown's Bookstore on State Street
1939
A shaded view of Brown's Bookstore, 673 State Street.
City Hall and Parkway Theatre
1938
View across Capitol grounds towards City Hall and the Parkway Theater on West Mifflin Street.
U.S. Post Office on Monona Avenue
circa 1936-1940
Newly built U.S. Post Office on Monona Avenue.
Wisconsin Power and Light
1939
View of the Wisconsin Power and Light building, located on West Washington Avenue.
View of The Tenney Building
1939
A group of pedestrians crossing the street outside of Liggetts Drugstore, located in the Tenney Building on Capitol Square.