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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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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.
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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.
Fess Hotel Balcony
October 10, 1976
An ornate wrought iron balcony on the old Fess Hotel building, now the Great Dane Brew Pub, 123 East Doty Street. The building bears the name of George Fess, an English immigrant who acquired it so...
Hotel Loraine Detail
March 11, 1973
Ornate window details and brickwork patterns on the exterior of the Hotel Loraine at 123 West Washington Avenue.
Wilson Hotel
Exterior view of the Wilson Hotel on East Wilson Street. Architectural details include a turret, arched windows and textured brickwork.
The Fess Hotel Menu
February 1, 1983
Menu offering American cuisine for the Fess Hotel. Built in 1854, the Fess Hotel was located at 123 E. Doty Street in Madison, Wisconsin. The hotel was owned by George Fess, who ran the hotel to se...
Madison Gas and Electric Company Brickwork
June 27, 1976
Madison Gas and Electric Company, 736 East Washington Avenue, displaying projecting bricks that provides patterns and texture.
