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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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Lock on The Yahara River
1939
Several men pass through the locks at the Lake Mendota entrance to the Yahara River.
Sherman Avenue Bridge and Lock
1910
View of the Sherman Bridge and Lock and surrounding area on the Yahara River. Caption reads: "Sherman Avenue Bridge and Locks, Yahara River, Madison, Wis."
Tenney Park Locks Activity
July 4, 1954
Locktender Earl Wood swinging open the heavy lock gate for a speedboat operator passing through the lock on the Yahara River at Tenney Park. A sign above the lock reads: "Boats - 8 MPH."
The Locks, Tenney Park and Lake Mendota
circa 1910-1919
View of the locks at Tenney Park where Lake Mendota meets the Yahara River. A boat with five people is passing through the canal. Caption reads: "The Locks, Tenney Park and Lake Mendota, Madison, W...
Sherman Avenue Bridge and Locks, Yahara River
circa 1910-1919
View of a bridge and lock on the Yahara River near Tenney Park. Caption reads: Sherman Avenue Bridge and Locks, Yahara River", Madison, Wis."
