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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.
Attribution
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.
Sylvanus Thayer
Portrait of Colonel Sylvanus Thayer (June 9, 1785-Septmeber 7, 1872) in military uniform.
Constructing Boats
1655
Engraving made after a watercolor painting by John White during the Barlowe Expedition in Virginia, 1585-1587.
Painting of a Man Hunting in Cherokee Marsh
Photograph of a framed watercolor painting of a hunter walking in tall grass among trees by the Johnson duck shack at old Cherokee Marsh.
Fauerbach Brewery Painting
November 19, 1955
Photograph of a watercolor painting by Alice Palmer of an early view of the Fauerbach Brewing Company.
Dancers Frolic Among the Trees
1923
University of Wisconsin physical education interpretive dance students perform out of doors in a grassy meadow.
