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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.
Monona Avenue and Lake Monona
Elevated view of Madison featuring Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard as of January 19, 1987) and Lake Monona.
Monona Avenue
1914
Monona Avenue with Lake Monona in the background. (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard as of January 19, 1987). View from the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
F.W. Woolworth Store
1954
F.W. Woolworth store on East Main Street at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard), showing the old Vilas block (aka Pioneer Building).
Main Street
1955
A view looking northeast along Main Street from near its intersection with Monona Avenue on Capitol Square.
Night View of Wisconsin State Capitol
1955
A nighttime view of the Wisconsin State Capitol as seen from Monona Avenue (South Wisconsin Avenue until December 1, 1877; Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard as of January 19, 1987).
