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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.
Attribution
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.
Picnic Point from Observatory Hill
A cyanotype of Picnic Point seen from Observatory Hill.
Picnic Point from Observatory Hill
Picnic Point viewed from Observatory Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Picnic Point from University Drive
Picnic Point from University drive, currently known as Observatory Hill. There are orchards in the foreground.
Picnic Point on Lake Mendota
Cyanotype image of a view looking towards the end of Picnic Point.
