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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.
Washburn Observatory
1930
View up hill of observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Washburn Observatory
1930
Side View of observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
North Hall
1929
View across Bascom Hill of North Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Home Economics Building
1922
Home Economics building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Washburn Observatory is on the hill behind.
Birge Hall
1925
Exterior of Birge Hall (Biology building) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from Bascom Hill.
Lathrop Hall
1920
Side view of building along University Avenue on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
