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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.
Boats on Yahara River
June 11, 1960
Three motor boats cruise on the Yahara river near the East Johnson Street bridge. A concrete boat ramp is visible at right with three additional motor boats visible, including one with the word 'Po...
Tenney Park Lock Opening
August 22, 1959
Mayor Ivan Nestingen leads the parade of boats that opened the new Tenney Park lock on Saturday morning.
Aerial View of Tenney Park
1930
Aerial view of Tenney Park, including the lagoon, residences surrounding the park, and the shoreline of Lake Mendota on bottom left.
University of Wisconsin Crew Rowing
February 23, 1953
University of Wisconsin crew gets into their shell from the dock on the Yahara River with Trachte boat houses in the background. View looking northwest toward Johnson St. bridge.
University of Wisconsin Crew Rowing
February 23, 1953
University of Wisconsin crew rowing down the Yahara River. View looking south toward railroad bridge in the 100 block of North Thornton Avenue.
