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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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Telescope at Yerkes Observatory
1910
The telescope inside the dome at Yerkes Observatory.
Yerkes Observatory
1910
Exterior view of Yerkes Observatory showing the entrance and two domes. There are prairie plants in the foreground.
Yerkes Observatory
1910
A group portrait of three women and two men outdoors on the steps of the Yerkes Observatory, a facility of the University of Chicago.
Cleopatra's Needle
1910
The rock formation at Devil's Lake known as Cleopatra's Needle.
Dells of the Wisconsin River
1910
A view of the rock formations along the Wisconsin River at the Dells.
