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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.
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.
Sigma Chi House
1903
View from Lake Mendota of house at 630 N. Lake Street. Robert C. Spencer, architect. The Armory and University of Wisconsin-Madison Boathouse are behind and to the right along the shoreline.
Delta Upsilon
1908
Fraternity house, 644 N Frances Street, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lake Mendota is in the background.
Picnic Point on Lake Mendota
1888
View of Picnic Point stretching out into Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
University Drive along Lake Mendota
1916
University Drive along Lake Mendota. Picnic Point can be seen across the lake. Caption reads: "University Drive."
Picnic Point on Lake Mendota
1888
View of Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The peninsula juts into Lake Mendota. The far shoreline can be seen in the distance.
