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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.
Southeast Madison View
1907
Elevated view looking southeast, possibly from the chimney of the University of Wisconsin Power Plant.
Looking West from Bascom Hall
1898
Elevated view of Camp Randall and the neighborhoods west of Bascom Hall including University Heights.
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.
Northeast Area of University of Wisconsin Campus
1907
Elevated view looking northeast from the chimney of the Power Plant on University Avenue. The Chemistry Building is in the foreground, and Bascom Hall and Lake Mendota are in the background. Numero...
Looking East from University Heights
Elevated view looking east towards the Wisconsin State Capitol and Lake Monona from the University Heights neighborhood. Camp Randall stadium is just beyond the houses in the foreground.
