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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.
Monona Lake Front Development Plan
July 1939
An architectural rendering of a proposed lakefront development plan.
Wisconsin State Capitol from Lake Mendota
Evening view of Capitol from across Lake Mendota.
Aerial View of Isthmus from the West
1930
Aerial view of isthmus looking east toward Lake Mendota and the Wisconsin State Capitol, with Lake Monona and the horizon in the background.
Hydraulic Engineering Building
1929
View from water of the Hydraulic Engineering Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The building is located on the edge of Lake Mendota and is surrounded by trees.
Crown Can Company
1938
The Crown Can Company, along the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad line.
