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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.
Washington Monument
1950
View across water of the Washington Monument from the Constitution Gardens Pond.
Reflecting Pool and Washington Monument
1950
View of the Washington Monument from the end of the reflecting pool. A car is in the right foreground.
Saint Christopher Monument
1950
View of the Saint Christopher monument in the driveway of the Mount St. Sepulchre Franciscan Monastery.
Shirley Krueger in Washington, D.C.
1950
Shirley Krueger posing on stairs near a street, with the United States Capitol Building in the distant background. A child is riding a tricycle on the sidewalk on the left.
White House
1950
View across street of the White House from the north side. A small crane stands in front of the building, while scaffolding is on the roof. The top of the Washington Monument can be seen over the l...
National Geographic Society Building
1950
View of the facade of the National Geographic Societies Administration Building from the street.
