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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.
Groundbreaking Ceremony
1970
"Pastor Hahn takes a turn with the shovel at the groundbreaking at St. Peter's Lutheran Church."
Bazaar Tree
April 3, 1963
Women replenishes handkerchiefs plucked from her wire tree at bazaar sale.
Groundbreaking
Eleven men are standing during a groundbreaking ceremony in front of a Findorff crane. Two men are holding shovels. The sign painted on the crane reads: "Findorff, Builders of Madison Since 1890."
Tired Kitten
June 3, 1963
Nancy Krahn dressed as a kitten relaxes after dance practice.
Groundbreaking for Madison General Hospital Addition
July 10, 1950
Edward J. B. Schubring (left), president of Madison General hospital association, and City Manager Leonard G. Howell wield the shovels at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new addition to Madison G...
Madison Public Library Groundbreaking Ceremony
October 29, 1963
Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Madison Public Library building at the south corner of W. Mifflin and N. Fairchild Streets. Rev. Joseph Brown is standing in the left foreground, Library Directo...
