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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.
Attribution
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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Old State Historical Society Light Fixtures
1954
Pile of original first floor light fixtures photographed during the remodeling of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building during the summer.
Library Reading Room Construction
1954
Historical Society Library Reading Room during the modernization of the 1950s, with materials and furniture stored at one end of the room.
Maynard Brichford
1955
Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archives offices of the Wisconsin Historical Soci...
Wisconsin Historical Society Building Entrance Marker
1956
The official site marker in front of the Wisconsin Historical Society Building.
State Historical Society of Wisconsin Original Library Volumes
The original collection of fifty books that formed the foundation of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library in 1853. The books are displayed on shelves in a wall cabinet with the glass doors opened.
Periodicals Room Ceiling
February 8, 1955
Southeast corner of Room #227,in the Wisconsin Historical Society. The old Periodicals Room, showing the original ceiling decoration and new wall construction.
