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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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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.
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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.
Picking Cotton
June 1931
African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia.
Design for a Park Fronting on Lake Monona Bay
1904
A map showing the design for a park fronting on Lake Monona Bay. (Now called Brittingham Park) taken from between pages 44 & 45 of the 1905 Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association Annual Report.
Map of Janesville, Wis. Showing Numbering System & Wards
1900
This map is indexed and shows numbering system, public buildings and parks, wards, and voting booths.
Plat Showing Olbrich Purchase
1923
Map showing the parcel of land on the shore of Lake Monona acquired by the City of Madison for a park (today known as Olbrich Park).
Public forest areas in Wisconsin, June 1954
June 1934
This Wisconsin Conservation Department map shows national, state, and county forests both approved and pending, as well as Indian reservations in Wisconsin.
