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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.
Capitol Park Gateway
The southeast entrance to the Capitol Park at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King Boulevard), probably taken about 1875. In the foreground are elaborate stone gateways topped with statues which f...
Capitol View of Pinckney Street
1873
Elevated view of South Pinckney Street from the Wisconsin State Capitol, with East Washington Avenue to the left and Lake Monona on the distant right. The Capitol Park in the foreground is surround...
Winter Capitol Stereograph
A stereograph of the Wisconsin State Capitol in the winter.
Capitol Park Statue
Close-up of the sculpture of a female figure which is on top of one of the two stone gateways at the Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.) entrance to the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Capitol Fence and Pinckney Street
1868
The wooden fence surrounding the Capitol Park. On the right is the railing at which horses were hitched, and some newly-planted trees. This view looks north on Pinckney Street toward the Methodist...
Wisconsin Avenue
1872
Stereograph of an elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue with Lake Mendota in the background.
