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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 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.
Fabulous Madison in Wonderful Wisconsin
circa 1960-1969
Aerial view of the Isthmus from over Lake Monona. The Wisconsin State Capitol and Lake Mendota are in the background. In the foreground is John Nolen Drive along the north and west shoreline of Lak...
Madison, Wisconsin Overlooking Monona Bay — Lake Mendota in the Distance
1953
Illustrated postcard of an elevated view of Monona Bay, the Isthmus and Lake Mendota. A residential neighborhood is in the foreground. Caption reads: "Madison, Wisconsin Overlooking Monona Bay — La...
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.
Isthmus from the Air
1919
Aerial view of the Isthmus and Lake Mendota from over Lake Monona. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the center.
Fabulous Madison in Wonderful Wisconsin
circa 1960-1969
Elevated view of the south east campus area with Lake Monona in the background.
Nob Hill Restaurant
circa 1960-1969
View of the Nob Hill Restaurant beside Lake Monona, with the Madison skyline in the distance. Formerly located at the junction of Olin Avenue and Hwys. 12 & 18.
