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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.
Assembly Chamber from Visitors' Gallery
The Assembly Chamber from the visitors' gallery, in the Wisconsin State Capitol. There is a large circular ceiling skylight, and a mural painting by Edwin Howland Blashfield, representing Wisconsin.
Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber
1913
Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber, including the mural of Edwin Blashfield. The mural depicts Wisconsin's past, present and future and set the tone for subsequent artwork in the building.
The Wisconsin State Assembly in Session
February 15, 1899
The Wisconsin State Assembly in session in the second Wisconsin State Capitol, with observers looking on from the gallery.
Reporter at Inauguration Ceremony
January 1985
"This is a Milwaukee TV reporter who covered the inauguration in Madison."
Assembly Chamber
February 4, 1945
Interior view of the Assembly Chamber at the Wisconsin State Capitol, with seating for legislators, featuring the Edward Blashfield mural: "The State of Wisconsin, its Past, Present, and Future."
"Wisconsin" Mural Painting
"Wisconsin," a mural painting by Edwin Howland Blashfield in the Assembly Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol. The theme is Wisconsin Past, Present, and Future.
