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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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Wisconsin State Capitol View Looking South
1885
View from the Wisconsin State Capitol looking south. Lake Monona is to the left, and West Washington Avenue is on the right. The Dane County Courthouse on South Main Street is under construction, a...
The Park Hotel
1880
An exterior view of the Park Hotel, at the corner of Main and Carroll Streets. Children and adults are standing on the street corner on the left. A large group of people is standing on the balcony ...
View Down West Main Street
circa 1930 -- 1939
A view down West Main Street at South Carroll Street looking west.
West Washington Avenue
circa 1880-1889
Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol dome toward West Washington Avenue. The Park Hotel is on the left. The four church steeples that can be identified are, left to right, First Baptist C...
Main Street, Park Hotel and St. Raphael's Church
1910
View of the Park Hotel, located on the corner of South Carroll Street and West Main Street. The church is further down the block. There is a sign on the building behind the hotel that reads: "The N...
Aerial View of Wisconsin State Capitol
1928
Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol, looking northeast. The Park Hotel on the corner of W. Main Street and S. Carroll Street, is in the foreground.
