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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.
Beach Scene
August 30, 1953
View from the beach of people swimming, playing in the sand, and sunbathing.
Swimmers at Vilas Park Beach
June 26, 1955
Boys playing in the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach.
Boys Playing in Muddy Sand
1982
Three young boys playing in a small hole dug into the sand and filled with water. The boy's bodies and swimsuits are covered in muddy sand.
Lifeguard Helps Open Madison Beaches for Summer
June 15, 1957
Lifeguard Nancy Thomsen (5524 Lake Mendota Drive) warns a youngster not to go into deep water at the Tenney Park beach on the official opening day for the summer of the Madison swimming beaches. Sw...
At the Beach
A woman and three children, all wearing hats, dresses, and shorts, are at the beach, playing in the sand. Two of the children have toy buckets. Behind them, two men in bathing suits are walking by ...
Vacationers on a Resort Beach
1910
View of a resort shoreline lined with vacation houses. People walk along the beach, swim, and sit on the sand or on an elevated boardwalk near the water.
