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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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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.
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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
1980
Aerial shot directly over Picnic Point. Boats are in the lake. Text on reverse reads: "Picnic Point — A peninsula of the University of Wisconsin campus jutting nearly nearly 3/4 mile into Lake Mend...
Fabulous Madison in Wonderful Wisconsin
circa 1960-1969
Color aerial postcard of the Isthmus from over Lake Monona. John Nolen Drive is along the shoreline in the foreground. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the center.
Capitol Square from the Air
1980
Aerial view of Capitol Square and the surrounding central isthmus. Lake Monona is on the right.
Madison, Wisconsin
circa 1960-1969
Text on reverse reads: "View of downtown Madison and Capitol Square from the air. In the foreground are Law Park and Lake Monona, in the background Lake Mendota, clearly showing how Madison is buil...
Downtown Madison from Turville Park at Twilight
1980
View of the Madison skyline across Lake Monona as seen from Turville Park.
Moon over Madison
1980
View of the Madison skyline from Lake Monona in the moonlight.
