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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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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.
Iceboats
1900
Forest Middleton poses with his sled as his father, William, works with an iceboat behind him on frozen Lake Monona. There are other iceboats and boathouses along the shore.
Two Men in Lake
1910
Two men in swimming suits shake hands while standing in thigh deep water.
Forest Middleton at Desk
1910
Forest Middleton, wearing a visor and moccassins, sits at a roll top desk. He holds an open book and is smoking a pipe. There are two oil lamps on the desk.
Mill Race at Tenney Park
1910
The mill race as it flows from Lake Mendota into Tenney Park.
University Bay
1900
View downhill through pastures towards the northwest looking across Lake Mendota's University Bay with Picnic Point in the background.
Woman About to Dive
1920
A woman dressed in a bathing suit, shoes and cap is about to dive off of a pier into the water. A rowboat is tethered on the right. Trees can be seen on the shoreline in the background. Another wom...
