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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.
National Guard Line
1955
An aerial view of Truax Field, now also called Dane County Regional Airport. In addition to commercial flights, Truax Field is also home to the Army National Guard and the Wisconsin Air National Gu...
Municipal Airport Administration Building
1955
An aerial view at Truax Field showing the Municipal Airport Administration Building.
Truax Field Radar
Radar equipment at Truax Field, formerly Madison Municipal Airport.
Gulls at Truax Field
October 1946
A flock of gulls flying over a runway at Truax Field, menacing aircraft and raising concerns for safety.
Dead Seagulls at Truax Field
October 22, 1946
Bert F. Crary, an employee at Truax Municipal Airport, holding three seagulls killed by an airplane as it landed at the airport.
Madison's Truax Runway
1954
Aerial view of a new landing strip at Truax Field as photographed from a low-flying airplane.
