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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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Wisconsin State Capitol (Second) Engraving
1854
Engraving of the first capitol building built in Madison used as an illustration by the Madison Mutual Insurance Company, a first insurance company, the directors of which included Simeon Mills, B....
College club building erected by pioneer Madison lawyer
Jul 22, 1926
Capital Times
Travel By Train, Washington, D.C. Travel Poster
1934
An original lithograph promoting Washington, D.C. as "the city that every American should know," and to get there by way of train travel. The poster depicts an elevated view of the National Mall, i...
Capture and Burning of Washington, D.C.
1814
Etching depicting the burning of Washington, D.C. by the British during the War of 1812. In the foreground are a number of soldiers moving toward the Capitol. In the background the U.S. Capitol bui...
Pennsylvania Railroad Travel Poster: Building The First White House
1932
An original lithograph promoting Washington, D.C., and the Pennsylvania Railroad through artist N.C. Wyeth's depiction of the 1798 construction of the first White House. Pictured are onlookers, and...
Connecticut Hall of Yale University
Engraving of Connecticut Hall, Yale's first permanent building, completed in 1752. The engraving shows a front view of the original Yale building, and a fence, pedestrians, and a man on horseback b...
