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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.
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.
Madison's Truax Runway
1954
Aerial view of a new landing strip at Truax Field as photographed from a low-flying airplane.
Air Show Crowd at Truax
May 16, 1959
A crowd watching a formation flight by military aircraft at a Truax Field air show.
Municipal Airport Administration Building
1955
An aerial view at Truax Field showing the Municipal Airport Administration Building.
Air View, Wisconsin Dells
1955
Aerial view of Wisconsin Dells. The wing of the airplane is in the left foreground.
Aerial View of Wisconsin State Capitol
1954
Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol, including a bit of the airplane wing.
