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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.
Vilas House Hotel
1868
Stereograph of Madison looking southeast across Lake Monona from the Capitol featuring the Vilas House hotel.
Sailboats on Lake Monona
View across water towards two men in a rowboat who are looking out at sailboats on Lake Monona. In the background is the far shoreline.
Steamboat on Lake Monona
Steamboat on Lake Monona, with the Wisconsin State Capitol and several churches in the background.
Lakeside House
1868
Stereograph of Lakeside House. This hotel, originally known as the Water Cure, was built on the shore of Lake Monona in 1855. It burned about 1870.
Wisconsin Avenue
1872
Stereograph of an elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue with Lake Mendota in the background.
Winter Capitol Stereograph
A stereograph of the Wisconsin State Capitol in the winter.
