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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.
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.
"Our Patron Saint" at Saint Xavier Academy
View of a statue of Saint Xavier at Saint Xavier Academy, erected in 1847 by the Sisters of Mercy. Two groups of young women stand on either side of the statue. Caption reads: "'Our Patron Saint' S...
Bedford Springs Resort
View across the lawn toward the porches and balconies of the Bedford Springs Resort, built in 1806.
St. Xavier's Academy
A view of the piano room at St. Xavier's Academy. An upright piano and a smaller keyboard stand next to each other along a wall decorated with framed pictures. A pennant reading "St. Xavier" hangs ...
Workers' Unity House
View across lawn toward Cottage U. Shrubs grow close to the porch, with tress in the lawn. A chair is on the upper veranda.
Oil Field
An oil field in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where Edwin Drake constructed the first oil well in 1859.
