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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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Burning of Bascom Hall Dome
October 10, 1916
People walking along the Linden Drive path watch as Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) dome burns on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Fire destroyed the ornate dome.
Bascom Hall
October 10, 1916
View from distance of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) dome burning on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Smoke is billowing out from the building, and two men on a path are watching on th...
Bascom Hall
October 10, 1916
View from distance of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) dome burning on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Smoke is billowing out from the building, and two men on a path are watching on th...
Bascom Hall
1910
Exterior of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall), before the dome was destroyed by fire.
Bascom Hall
1916
Bascom Hall with dome (formerly Main Hall) from Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Lincoln Monument is in front of the entrance. Pedestrians are on the lawn and near a s...
Bascom Hall
1905
Main Hall, later renamed Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The dome was destroyed in a fire in 1916. Later additions made the building symmetric.
