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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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Capitol Park Gateway
The southeast entrance to the Capitol Park at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King Boulevard), probably taken about 1875. In the foreground are elaborate stone gateways topped with statues which f...
Wisconsin State Capitol Fence from East Washington Avenue
Winter view of the wooden gate to the third Wisconsin Capitol at East Washington Avenue.
Capitol Fence and Pinckney Street
1868
The wooden fence surrounding the Capitol Park. On the right is the railing at which horses were hitched, and some newly-planted trees. This view looks north on Pinckney Street toward the Methodist...
Capitol Park Entrance
1912
This card which is postmarked 1912 shows the zinc statutes on the stone gateways near the sidewalk at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). Originally constructed in 1873, the statues c...
Capitol View of Pinckney Street
1873
Elevated view of South Pinckney Street from the Wisconsin State Capitol, with East Washington Avenue to the left and Lake Monona on the distant right. The Capitol Park in the foreground is surround...
Vilas House Hotel
1868
Stereograph of Madison looking southeast across Lake Monona from the Capitol featuring the Vilas House hotel.
