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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.
Old Water Tower
1915
East Washington Avenue from the Capitol Park with a view of the water tower, which stood from 1890 to 1920.
Monona Avenue and Lake Monona
Elevated view of Madison featuring Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard as of January 19, 1987) and Lake Monona.
Capitol View of the Water Tower
1890
The Madison water tower and farmers' market as seen through the stone gateway at the East Washington Avenue entrance to the Capitol Park. The building on the left became the American Exchange Bank ...
Pinckney Street
1870
View overlooking Pinckney Street on the Square with the American Hotel in the background.
Fourth Wisconsin State Capitol
1944
Elevated exterior view of the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol.
