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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.
Attribution
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.
Carpenters at Work
1874
Photographic reproduction of a lithograph showing carpenters erecting houses.
Locomotive Explosion
Four men pose next to a locomotive, which has a hole in its side due to an explosion.
Tractor Class
February 8, 1927
A tractor class in session in front of Agriculture Hall.
War Chest Day's Pay Pledge
October 4, 1945
Group portrait of Madison Building and Construction Trades workers signing pledge cards to donate one day's pay (about $12) to Madison War Chest campaign.
Last Elm Tree on State Street
1974
Last elm tree on State Street being cut down. The Wisconsin Historical Society and the Memorial Union are in the background.
