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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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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.
Capitol Dome
1904
A night view of the dome and lantern of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, lighted with electric lights.
Wisconsin Capitol Dome Construction
1913
View across street towards temporary derricks protruding from the steel framework of the dome on the Wisconsin State Capitol. The lantern cage tops the dome. The colonnade and some of the statuary...
Capitol Fire
February 27, 1904
A view of the smoldering third Wisconsin State Capitol. The roof of the west wing has collapsed; debris litters the steps.
Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) with Dome Illuminated
1902
An unusual photograph of the Wisconsin State Capitol at night with the dome illuminated for a political meeting.
Demolition of the Dome
1909
A crane lowers the flag pole from the third Wisconsin State Capitol as the first step in demolition of the dome. An iron eagle is perched atop the flag pole and is at the right end of the pole. It ...
Night View of Wisconsin State Capitol from West Washington Avenue
September 30, 1965
The Wisconsin State Capitol at night from West Washington Avenue. There is a neon or electric sign for "Hotel Loraine."
