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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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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.
Carvers Working at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
1899
Two stone cutters (probably Italian) working on decorative details over the east entrance during the construction of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building. The carvers are working on t...
Carvers at Work
1911
Carvers at work on the Karl Bitter sculpture for the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison). Between 1911 and 1913, a group of stone cutters (many of them Italian) worked on the four fig...
Construction of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
1899
View of construction workers and stone carvers/cutters (some of them probably Italian) showing the detailed sections of the building of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
"Faith" Wisconsin State Capitol Sculpture
1914
Three ornamental sculptures on the base of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome.
Wisconsin Historical Society Lion Detail
September 3, 1972
Stone lion's head which serves as a decorative detail on the exterior of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Detail of Decorative Molding
Detail of decorative molding in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
