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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.
Attribution
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.
Entrance to Black Hawk Cave
Entrance to Black Hawk Cave on Lake Mendota, allegedly the hiding place of Chief Black Hawk.
Lake Mendota Pier
August 1, 1976
A pier with high posts in Lake Mendota off Maple Bluff.
Wisconsin State Capitol from Lake Mendota
Wisconsin Capital from the shores of Lake Mendota, with two steamboats crossing the lake.
Spring Basin
November 26, 1972
Dry spring basin (Merrill Springs) at the end of Spring Court off Lake Mendota Drive.
Wisconsin State Capitol from Lake Mendota
Evening view of Capitol from across Lake Mendota.
