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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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Pleasure Drive in Vilas Park
1938
Scene of a tree and rock-lined road through Vilas Park. Benches are on the lawn on the right. Caption reads: "Pleasure Drive in Vilas Park, Madison, Wisconsin."
Zoo at Vilas Park
circa 1910-1919
View across lawn towards the bear enclosures at Vilas Zoo. Caption reads: "Zoo at Vilas Park, Madison, Wisconsin."
Polar Bears at the Vilas Park Zoo
1980
Elevated view of two polar bears in their enclosure at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). A crowd is gathered behind the fence, and in the far background is Lake Wingra.
Madison, Wis. and the Four Lakes Region
1928
Birds-eye view showing Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Wingra, Lake Waubesa and Lake Kegonsa. Shows the growth of Madison from the Isthmus along the southern shore of Lake Mendota and the western s...
Bathing Beach at Vilas Park
1954
Color postcard view of a crowded bathing beach at Lake Wingra.
Picnic Point, Lake Mendota
circa 1910-1919
Sepia-toned photographic postcard view looking out towards the Picnic Point Peninsula jutting out into Lake Mendota. A walking path is on the left Caption reads: "Picnic Point, Lake Mendota, Madiso...
