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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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Madison and Vicinity
1920
A map of Madison and the vicinity. Red lines show the street railway.
Portage County Wisconsin
circa 1930-1949
This map from the early 20th century shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, schools, churches, cemeteries, town halls, creameries, and streams an...
Devils Island Lighthouse
Lake Superior
Devils Island is the northernmost point in Wisconsin. First lit in 1901, the white iron tower at the northern end of the island is topped with a third-order Fresnel lens and continues to this day t...
An Investment for Every Purse - 2nd War Loan - They Give Their Lives - You Lend Your Money
1943
Treasury Design, unknown title and number. The poster features a waving blue flag with the words "2nd War Loan" printed on it in white.
