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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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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.
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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.
Capitol Stairs
1948
One of the stairwells on the outside of the Wisconsin State Capitol building, leading to the center of the building.
Wisconsin State Capitol Stairway
1948
Exterior of the Wisconsin State Capitol, which is the fourth capitol built in 1906-1917, featuring outdoor stairway.
Wisconsin State Capitol Rotunda
Partial view from above of the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda, with a group of people on the balcony looking toward the North Gallery.
Wisconsin State Capitol from Bascom Hill
1948
Wisconsin State Capitol from Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Wisconsin State Capitol from Bascom Hill
1948
Winter scene of the Wisconsin State Capitol as viewed from the snow-covered Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.