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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.
Looking West from Power Plant
1907
Elevated wiew looking west, probably from the chimney of the University of Wisconsin Power Plant. Camp Randall Stadium is in the lower left corner.
University Avenue Looking Towards Downtown
1907
Elevated view looking toward the Wisconsin State Capitol along University Avenue, possibly from the chimney of University of Wisconsin-Madison Power Station.
Monona Bay
1900
Elevated view looking towards Monona Bay, possibly from atop the University of Wisconsin Power Plant smokestack.
View from the Wisconsin State Capitol Looking East
Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol looking eastward down King Street to Lake Monona.
View Across Monona Bay
1905
Elevated view looking towards the Wisconsin State Capitol from across Monona Bay.
East Washington Avenue from the Wisconsin State Capitol
1927
Elevated view looking east from the Wisconsin State Capitol down East Washington Avenue.
