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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.
Attribution
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.
Horse Barn
1905
The horse barn on the agriculture campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There is a central tower and half-timbering on the gable end of the upper stories. There is a smaller barn on the left.
Washburn Observatory
1905
The observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Bascom Hall
1905
Main Hall, later renamed Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The dome was destroyed in a fire in 1916. Later additions made the building symmetric.
Landscape
1905
A rural landscape with large fields in the foreground and a small town with church in the background.
Engineering Building
1905
View across Bascom Hill of the old engineering building at 1000 Bascom Mall. The building now houses the School of Education.
Dairy Barn and Silo
October 12, 1926
University of Wisconsin dairy barn and silo with Holstein Safety silage cutter on the ground in front.
