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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.
Wisconsin Historical Society Library
1905
Interior of the Wisconsin Historical Society library.
Historical Society Reading Room
1908
Elevated view of the length of the Historical Society Library Reading Room, including tables, chairs, lamps and skylight.
Library Stacks
1948
Young man studying at a table in the library stacks of the Wisconsin Historical Society library.
Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room
1901
Library Reading Room as completed in 1901, showing skylights and ceiling fixtures, library tables and lights, and many University of Wisconsin students at the tables.
Wisconsin Historical Society Library Skylight
View from below of the Wisconsin Historical Society's Library skylight.
Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Rooms of the Historical Society
1898
The Genealogical Alcove in the Historical Society's quarters in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Although the Society had only moved into these rooms in 1883, it is clear that conditions were alr...
