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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.
Double Water Spirit Effigy Mound
May 4, 1915
Elevated view of a double water spirit effigy mound 4 miles south of Stockbridge near Appleton. The spirit has no head but the necks unite.
Turtle Effigy Mound
A turtle effigy mound on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, outlined by melting snow.
Ground Plan of Indian Effigy Mounds
July 1838
A map diagram of Indian effigy mounds seven miles east of Blue Mounds in the Wisconsin Territory.
Water Spirit Burial Mound
A view of a two-tailed water spirit burial mound on the grounds of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus near Observatory Hill.
Turtle Mound on Observatory Hill
1910
Elevated view of a double-tailed turtle effigy mound on Observatory Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Turtle Mound
September 28, 1942
Elevated view of turtle mound on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
