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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 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.
Large Telescope
November 8, 1926
Large telescope at University of Wisconsin Washburn Observatory.
Prof. C. Morse Huffer with Telescope
August 14, 1931
Prof. C. Morse Huffer is standing with the 20 foot telescope in the Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
New Equipment at Washburn Observatory
February 10, 1933
A man is sitting near a new photo electric cell equipment at Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Also shown is a portion of the observatory's telescope.
Telescope at Washburn Observatory
1930
Telescope at Washburn Observatory with man at controls.
Oak Tree near Washburn Observatory
October 16, 1927
Oak tree near Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
