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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.
Dutton and Wheeler's Iceboat
March 8, 1896
Three men stand near a large iceboat owned by Dutton and Wheeler on Lake Mendota.
View from Sunset Point in Owen Park
1909
View from Sunset Point in Owen Park, which is now a part of Hoyt Park. Lake Mendota is in the distance.
Lake Mendota Drive
circa 1910-1919
View of Lake Mendota Drive, which is covered with a canopy of trees.
Brittingham Park
1900
Boys playing on makeshift diving board on the shore of Lake Monona at Brittingham Park.
Stake Driving Crew
May 31, 1898
The stake driving crew for the Sells Bros. & Forepaugh Circus. A group of men drive several stakes into the ground.
View of Washburn Observatory, University of Wisconsin Upper Campus
1898
Elevated view looking west towards Washburn Observatory and the surrounding area in the distance. Two windmills are behind the observatory, and Lake Mendota is on the right.
