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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.
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.
Dairy Barn
1905
The dairy barn on the agriculture campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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.
Washburn Observatory
1922
View from path through trees of observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Washburn Observatory
1905
Exterior view of the Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Washburn Observatory in Snow
1900
Winter view of the Washburn Observatory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
