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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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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.
Carved Wooden Frowning Face
September 10, 1973
A frowning face carved into the ends of wooden beams supporting the two floors of Le Chateau at 636 Langdon Street.
Carved Wooden Smiling Face
August 22, 1976
A carved smiling face detail on the end of a wooden beam on Le Chateau residential cooperative at 636 Langdon Street. It's one of four decorative faces, the others displaying tears, laughter and il...
Greek-Inspired Window
May 2, 1976
A window in a building at 16 North Broom Street featuring columns topped by a pediment. Carved in the center of the pediment is a wooden swag, which is a decorative chain of flowers, fruits and fol...
Carved Wood Window Frame
February 6, 1977
A window frame decorated with ornate carved wood, 115 Ely Place, in a Madison landmark known as the Charles E. Buell House.
Greyhound Bus Company Terminal Detail
June 23, 1974
A wing and wheel design carved above a window at the Greyhound Bus Company terminal at 122 West Washington Avenue.
House Details
April 10, 1977
A wooden gable on a house at 1724 Jefferson Street ornamented with octagonal shingles, intricately carved brackets, and decorative, carved squares.
