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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 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.
Broken Toilet
December 4, 1957
View of a toilet in a dirty stall. The plaster on the walls appears damaged, and the broken toilet tank lid is laid next to it.
Interior of a Room
December 4, 1957
Interior view of a room. The window on the far wall is partially boarded up. The cabinet door under the sink is ajar, the floor has broken or missing pieces, and general damage and wear and tear is...
Two Children Outside Broken Building
1955
Two children in winter coats and boots posing outside a building. Bricks are scattered on the ground behind them, and the building has cracked windows.
Broken Building
1955
View from street towards the exterior of a damaged building. Bricks and boards are scattered outside it. The roof is missing, and windows are cracked or missing. A person is working on top of the b...
Men with Shovels and Dynamite — Brittingham Project
1954
Six men are posing around a patch of dirt, and snow is on the ground. Five of the men are holding shovels, and one man is lighting what appears to be a prop stick of dynamite. A crate behind it is ...
Mayor Ivan Nestigen at Brittingham Project
November 1957
Two men stand on a sidewalk and look in the direction of a sign, which reads: "Brittingham Redevelopment Project UR Wis. 2-1 A Project of City of Madison, Wisconsin This project is undertaken with...
