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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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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.
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.
Picnic Point on Lake Mendota
1888
View of Picnic Point stretching out into Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Men's Dormitories
August 17, 1927
Elevated view of dormitories on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Adams, Van Hise and Tripp Halls with Lake Mendota in the background. Picnic Point can be seen in the distance.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union Terrace
1930
University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union Terrace on Lake Mendota.
Adams, Tripp and Van Hise Halls
1926
View of Adams, Tripp and Van Hise Halls. All are residence halls on the University of Wisconsin campus with Picnic Point and Lake Mendota in the background.
Lakeshore Path in Bascom Woods
1930
View of the Lakeshore Path in Bascom Woods by Lake Mendota, later dedicated the Howard M. Temin Lake Shore Path on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
