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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.
Notched Shingles
August 31, 1975
Notched shingles, a style that developed in the late 1800's, decorate the second story exterior of this house at 715 East Gorham Street.
Keystone and Arch
January 16, 1977
An exaggerated keystone decorates an arch above the window of a house at 1052 East Gorham Street.
House Details
April 10, 1977
A wooden gable on a house at 1724 Jefferson Street ornamented with octagonal shingles, intricately carved brackets, and decorative, carved squares.
Scalloped Shingles
June 6, 1976
Scalloped shingles, also known as fish scale shingles, on a house at 518 West Washington Avenue.
Mini-Rooftop on a House
January 5, 1975
A peculiar mini-rooftop featuring a classical triangular pediment on a house at 124 North Baldwin Street.
Brown House Detail
June 8, 1973
One of four Ionic-style columns on the Greek revival Brown house at 116 East Gorham Street.
