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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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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.
Groundbreaking
Eleven men are standing during a groundbreaking ceremony in front of a Findorff crane. Two men are holding shovels. The sign painted on the crane reads: "Findorff, Builders of Madison Since 1890."
Madison East High School Construction
June 13, 1932
Madison East High School construction site. The sign on the left reads: "East High School, J.H. Findorff & Son Builders, Frank Riley, Architect." The sign on the construction shack reads: "Electric...
Hill Farms State Office Building During Construction
1962
Aerial view of the Hill Farms State Office Building, 4802 Sheboygan Avenue, during construction.
Construction Site with View of the Wisconsin State Capitol
A State Office Building construction site, downtown, with a view of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Two men on the right are working with boards on sawhorses. On the floor are tools, toolboxes and mor...
Construction of Gisholt Building
circa 1960 -- 1969
View of construction of the skywalk across Baldwin Street at the Gisholt plant, facing East Washington Avenue. Two workers, one obscured by a beam, are unloading a wheelbarrow and other materials f...
Findorff Construction Scene
1930
Construction site of the Wisconsin Power and Light Co. Office Building & Bus Station. The address of the bus station was 122 West Washington Avenue, but the entrance was on North Fairchild Street. ...
