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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.
Looking Eastward on State Street
1935
View of State Street from the 300 block, looking east toward the Wisconsin State Capitol.
East Washington Avenue from the Capitol
1954
View looking down East Washington Avenue from the Capitol at Pinckney Street.
Aerial View of Madison
April 17, 1952
Aerial view of Madison looking toward the capitol building from over East Washington Avenue and Commercial Avenue. Other images in this set look toward the north and northeast.
Aerial view of Downtown Madison
May 11, 1951
Aerial view of downtown Madison looking from State Street to King Street.
Aerial View of a Capitol Square Intersection
May 5, 1947
Aerial view of Main, King, and Pinckney Streets intersection on Madison's Capitol Square. View is looking south down Pinckney Street. Kresge's, 27 East Main Street, can be seen on the right.
Aerial View of Capitol Square
1928
Aerial view of Capitol Square and vicinity, looking east-northeast. State Street is visible at the bottom center.
