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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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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.
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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.
Illustration of Madison
1850
A watercolor painting depicting a distant view of the city of Madison, circa 1850-1851.
School and Church
1851
School and church, from a drawing by Johann B. Wengler, an Austrian traveller in this country.
Madison Landscape
September 1853
Pencil drawing of view overlooking Madison, Wisconsin. The sketch looks down North Hamilton Street from the capitol. Rutted, irregular streets and frame houses mark this landscape.
Capitol View with Hotel Loraine
1920
Color illustration of a view from the Wisconsin State Capitol (which was the fourth State Capitol and the third in Madison) showing the Hotel Loraine and West Washington Avenue.
Wisconsin State Capitol Planting Design
1911
Architectural watercolor of a planting design for the Wisconsin State Capitol.
