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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.
House Decorated for Christmas
November 21, 1961
Exterior view of the house of Jack Savidusky, 341 Kensington Drive, decorated for the Christmas holiday with lights and reindeer figures.
St. Mary's Hospital Nativity Scene
December 9, 1950
Nativity figurines are placed in a naturally formed snow cave outside a courtyard window of the St. Mary's Hospital kitchen.
Outdoor Nativity Scene
December 21, 1951
Outdoor nativity scene, displayed in front of a board fence.
Spring Basin
November 26, 1972
Dry spring basin (Merrill Springs) at the end of Spring Court off Lake Mendota Drive.
Outdoor Nativity at Grace Episcopal Church
December 1954
A girl is admiring the outdoor nativity displayed at the Grace Episcopal Church at 116 West Washington Avenue on Capitol Square. The display includes Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, with an angel over...
Christmas Seal Display
December 2, 1950
A group of girl scouts from Troop 99 of Bashford Methodist Church singing Christmas carols at a Christmas holiday display at a Madison law firm featuring the Christmas seal design of the National T...
