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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.
Wind Erosion
circa 1970-1979
View of a dirt field showing signs of wind erosion. Farm buildings, a fence and fields are in the distance.
Madison Gas & Electric
circa 1970-1979
Smoke is pouring out of three smokestacks at Madison Gas & Electric.
Dust Storm
circa 1970-1979
A dust storm is rising up across a field. A center pivot irrigation system is on the right in the distance beyond power poles.
Smokestacks
January 1977
View looking up towards three of the main smokestacks at Madison Gas & Electric.
