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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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Picnic Point from University Hall
circa 1860-1869
Elevated view of Lake Mendota and Picnic Point from the roof of University Hall (now Bascom Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
View of Wisconsin State Capitol and Bascom
1862
Stereograph from Spaight Street neighborhood looking toward Capitol and Bascom Hall.
Madison from the Roof of University Hall
circa 1860-1869
Fuller made this photograph of the University District and railyards from the roof of Main Hall (now Bascom Hall), about 1860-1862. Completion of that building in 1860 afforded an elevation for un...
Bascom Hall
circa 1860-1869
Stereograph from Wisconsin State Capitol of State Street and the University of Wisconsin, including Bascom Hall, and North and South Hall.
View from Main Hall (Bascom Hall) toward Lake Mendota
1861
View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. North Hall is in the foreground with several residences and Lake Mendota behind. A small portion of ...
View up Wisconsin Avenue
circa 1860-1869
Elevated view up Wisconsin Avenue showing City Hall with the Post Office to the right. Also visible is the Presbyterian Church.
