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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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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.
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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.
Brittingham Park Bath House
1910
View across water towards the bath house. Caption reads: "Bath House, Brittingham Park, Madison, Wis."
Brighton Beach
circa 1910-1919
View along shoreline of a bathing beach with many people on and near a pier. There are rowboats in the water on the right. Caption reads: "Brighton Beach, Menasha, Wis."
University Drive, Looking West
circa 1910-1919
View of University Drive along Lake Mendota. Caption reads: "University Drive, Looking West, Madison, Wis."
Bathing Beach at Vilas Park
1954
Color postcard view of a crowded bathing beach at Lake Wingra.
Thoma's Bathing Beach, Little Cedar Lake
circa 1910-1919
Photographic postcard view of people swimming and standing in the lake. People are out in boats in the background. Caption reads: "Thoma's Bathing Beach, Little Cedar Lake, Wis."
Landing at Esther Beach
1916
View of the dock at Esther Beach, Lake Monona. People are sitting in boats moored along the pier near the shoreline. Caption reads: "Landing at Esther Beach, Madison, Wis."
