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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.
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.
Bird Nest
View of a bird (Robin) perched on its nest atop an outdoor lighting fixture.
Robin Nest
May 1980
"When a pair of robins decided to make their home on this coach light, it provided some fine photo opportunities. The birds' progress was monitored from a nearby window and the pictures were taken...
Electric Lines
October 1980
"Rays from the setting sun illuminate an electric line which stands out against the evening sky."
Frank R. Dengel & Co. Letterhead
Letterhead of the Frank R. Dengel & Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dealer in lighting fixtures and sanitary plumbing. On the left is an illustration of a hanging electric fixture of a bat suspend...
W.E. Goodman Letterhead
circa 1890-1899
Letterhead of W.E. Goodman of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dealer in gas and electric lighting fixtures and sanitary plumbing, with a wall-mounted lighting fixture with four hanging shades, a central upri...
West Wing Electrical Fixtures — Wisconsin State Capitol
June 1908
Electrical fixtures, West Wing.
