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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.
Madison Gas & Electric Company Electric Power Plant
June 20, 1961
Exterior view of Madison Gas & Electric Company Blount Street electric power plant. View includes power plant, smokestacks, electric-line towers, and cars parked on the street.
Madison Gas & Electric Co. Interior
February 22, 1946
Madison Gas & Electric Company plant, showing stairway, ceiling beams and machinery, at 115 South Blount Street.
Madison Gas & Electric Co. Interior
February 22, 1946
Interior view of the Madison Gas & Electric Company, showing metal floor and stairway, windows and beam arrangement, 115 South Blount Street.
Madison Gas & Electric Co.
February 22, 1946
Madison Gas & Electric Company. View from above of machinery to be removed, top floor of the generating plant, 115 South Blount Street.
Power Plant
June 20, 1961
Exterior view of Madison Gas & Electric Company Blount Street electric power plant. View is across the railroad tracks and includes the power plant, smokestacks, a truck, and a crane.
Modern Distributors Warehouse
February 4, 1953
Exterior view of the Modern Distributors, Inc. warehouse, 1818 South Park Street.
