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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.
Iceboats on Lake Mendota
1896
A gathering of iceboats and their captains on Lake Mendota.
Dutton and Wheeler's Iceboat
March 8, 1896
Three men stand near a large iceboat owned by Dutton and Wheeler on Lake Mendota.
Brittingham Park
1900
Boys playing on makeshift diving board on the shore of Lake Monona at Brittingham Park.
View from Sunset Point in Owen Park
1909
View from Sunset Point in Owen Park, which is now a part of Hoyt Park. Lake Mendota is in the distance.
Park and Pleasure Drive Association Members
1895
Outdoor view of two men standing and two women sitting in a grassy field. They are possibly members of the Park and Pleasure Drive Association, of which Charles Brown was an official.
