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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.
Monona Bay and Brittingham Park Boathouse
1918
View across water towards the boathouse in Brittingham Park on Monona Bay, taken from the railroad causeway.
Children at Brittingham Park
1905
Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole.
Bath House, Brittingham Park
circa 1910-1919
View across water towards the bath house and bathing beach at Brittingham Park on Monona Bay. Caption reads: "Bath House, Brittingham Park, Madison, Wis."
Brittingham Park Bath House
1910
View across water towards the bath house. Caption reads: "Bath House, Brittingham Park, Madison, Wis."
Monona Bay Railroad Causeway
1918
Looking southwest along the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad causeway. Two boys fish from the bridge. The sign declares "Private Property. No Thoroughfare. Keep Off." The Chicago & North...
Brittingham Park
1900
Boys playing on makeshift diving board on the shore of Lake Monona at Brittingham Park.
