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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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Lake Mendota Shoreline on University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus
View across Lake Mendota of the University Boat House and Red Gym along the shoreline. The dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol can be seen in the distance.
View from Lake Monona
1945
View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from across Lake Monona with a tree, pier and boat in the foreground.
Shore of Lake Mendota
Wooden piers extend into Lake Mendota while canoes rest along the shoreline on the left. People are sitting and standing on some of the piers. U.W. buildings are in the distance.
Lake Monona
1894
Man in a rowboat on Lake Monona with a view of the city in the background.
Madison View from Across Lake Monona
1905
View of Madison from across Lake Monona. A boat is moored near trees at the shoreline of the lake in the foreground. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. Glimpse of Madison from Lake Side."
Lake Mendota
July 5, 1933
View from shoreline of tree-lined distant shore, beyond which can be seen the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol, and on the right, St. Raphael's Catholic Church.
