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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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Terra Cotta Detail
October 27, 1974
Decorative terra cotta details on the exterior front of the Schlimgen Building at 1327 University Avenue.
Levitan Building
August 31, 1969
Entrance to the Levitan Building at 15 West Main Street, which exhibits Egyptian architecture in the terra cotta details. The columns are copies of Eyptian columns in the Chicago Art Institute. Cla...
Terra Cotta Harlequin
May 25, 1975
An image of a Harlequin (Arlecchino in Italian), a classical witty comic servant, on a terra cotta panel that decorates Lombardino's Restaurant at 2500 University Avenue.
Terra Cotta Detail
November 16, 1975
Decorative terra cotta detail on the facade of the Castle & Doyle building, 125 State Street. The building was built in 1856 as fire station No. 2 and remodeled by Claude & Starch in 1921-22 for t...
Mary Vilas Hanks House, 525 Wisconsin Avenue
March 21, 1971
Ornate exterior of the Hanks house at 525 Wisconsin Avenue, built by Colonel William F. Vilas for his daughter Mary Vilas Hanks. The window detail shows vertical panels broken horizontally into ela...
Mullins House
June 26, 1971
Exterior view of a classically-proportioned house, owned by Jerome Mullins, off Lake Mendota at 844 Prospect Place.
