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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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Madison Central Fire Station, Detail
October 19, 1969
Two ornamented windows at the Central Madison Fire Station, 18 South Webster Street. The lintel (the brick and stone arch) above the second story windows is decorative, with a functional steel lint...
Wilson Hotel
Exterior view of the Wilson Hotel on East Wilson Street. Architectural details include a turret, arched windows and textured brickwork.
Old Gas Station
Triangle Super Service gas station, 635 South Spooner Street at the corner of Monroe Street. It was demolished so that Randall Bank could be built on the site.
Madison Central Fire Station
September 15, 1948
Madison's Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webster Street. On the left is the adjacent alley and the back of the Tenney Building.
University Lifesaving Station
November 21, 1976
Exterior view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison lifesaving station, 144 East Gilman Street near James Madison Park. It was designed by Law, Law, Potter & Nystrom and built in 1967. It has a bo...
New Madison Fire Truck
September 3, 1948
Fire Chief Edward J. Page (right) and Lieut. Albert Rogg standing next to one of three new Madison fire truck at the Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webster Street.
