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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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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.
Brittingham Park
1900
Boys playing on makeshift diving board on the shore of Lake Monona at Brittingham Park.
Shacks along Lake Monona
1906
Shacks at the foot of North Main Street along Lake Monona near what later became Brittingham Park.
Filling In Brittingham Park
1907
A steam-powered dredge anchored in Monona Bay is filling in Brittingham Park.
Foot of West Main Street
1906
Area at the foot of West Main Street, which is now Brittingham Park. Weatherworn buildings are on the right.
Children at Brittingham Park
1905
Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole.
