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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.
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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.
Summer Scenes at Madison Parks and Beaches
August 3, 1953
Karen Jeffs of Alberta, Canada, plays in the sand at Vilas Park.
Madison Swimming Meet
July 27, 1952
Group portrait of winners in the annual Madison swimming championships gathered at B.B. Clarke beach.
Swimming Lessons at Lake Wingra
June 8, 1953
Sally Smith directs a group of beginning boy swimmers during swimming lessons at Lake Wingra.
Summer Scenes at Madison Parks and Beaches
August 3, 1953
Tom Carroll and his son Alan play in the water at the Vilas Park beach.
Swimming Safety
June 14, 1944
Carol Ann Nelson and her sister, Patty, observing the sign stating the hours that lifeguards are on duty at the beach.
Madison Swimming Meet
August 2, 1953
Group portrait of the eleven winners in the age 11 and under division of the Madison swimming meet at B.B. Clarke beach.
