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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.
Ravine Bridge
1902
Rustic bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood Hills.
Rustic Bridge
1901
A.G. Zimmerman parked on an artfully rustic, wooden bridge in his automobile, a "locomobile steamer," on Mendota Drive.
Albert G. Zimmerman with Horsless Carriage on Rustic Bridge
circa 1900-1909
View looking towards A.G. Zimmerman driving a horseless carriage, or early automobile over a rustic bridge. The bridge has board flooring and railings made of bent saplings. Albert is wearing a sui...
Ravine Bridge
1955
Bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood Hills, looking west.
Ravine Bridge
1955
A public bus crosses the bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood, looking east.
Madison's First Car
1902
Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Zimmerman in their locomobile steamer in 1902. Zimmerman purchased the car in 1901 and claimed it was the first permanent automobile in the capital city. "Prof. Wood had one...
