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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.
Lake Monona From Observatory Hill
June 26, 1896
View of Lake Monona from Observatory Hill, on the University of Wisconsin campus. Building are below the hill among trees.
Elevated View of Madison in Eagle Heights
1900
Elevated view of Madison through trees. Lake Mendota, buildings of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including the Washburn Observatory are along the shoreline on the right. The Wisconsin State ...
Picnic Point
July 1899
Elevated view from hill of Picnic Point, located on the south shore of Lake Mendota.
Maple Bluff and Chemunk from the Old Mill
View from shoreline across Lake Mendota towards Maple Bluff. There are pilings in the foreground on the left.
View Along Shoreline Towards University of Wisconsin
1900
View along shoreline towards the University of Wisconsin from the foot of North Carroll Street.
University of Wisconsin Lower Campus
1900
View across Lake Mendota towards the lower campus buildings at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
