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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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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 Skyline from Lake Monona
1900
Madison skyline, including the Wisconsin State Capitol, from the south shore of Lake Monona.
Lake Monona
1894
Man in a rowboat on Lake Monona with a view of the city in the background.
View from Lake Monona
1945
View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from across Lake Monona with a tree, pier and boat in the foreground.
Looking South from the Wisconsin State Capitol Dome
1890
Looking south from the capitol dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol, the view is of West Main Street bound by South Hamilton Street and Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard). None of ...
Fourth Wisconsin State Capitol
1920
Exterior of the third Wisconsin State Capitol built in Madison in 1906-1917.
View from Capitol Looking East
1911
View from the top of the Wisconsin State Capitol looking east down King Street toward Lake Monona.