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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.
Capitol Dome
1904
A night view of the dome and lantern of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, lighted with electric lights.
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 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...
Wisconsin State Capitol Dome
1969
View through tree branches of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome.
Wisconsin Capitol
1900
A winter scene with the third Wisconsin State Capitol from the east. There is snow on the ground and clinging to the trees.
Wisconsin Capitol
1900
Bunting decorates the columns of the east wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. The sculpture "Forward" is on the far right.
