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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.
King Hall
September 12, 1976
King Hall, completed in 1896, on Observatory Drive has architectural features of the Tudor style, including exposed half timbers, brick archways and brick beams called lintels over the windows.
Washburn Observatory
October 3, 1976
Exterior of Washburn Observatory, a gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Cadwallader C. Washburn, on Observatory Hill overlooking Lake Mendota, off Observatory Drive. It was built in 18...
First Church of Christ Scientist Interior
May 16, 1976
The interior of the First Church of Christ Scientist at 315 Wisconsin Avenue featuring Corinthian-style columns, Roman arches, and ornate capitols.
Hiram Smith Hall
December 26, 1971
Exterior view of front of Hiram Smith Hall, a stone and timber, Queen Anne-style structure. Dairy building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, just off Observatory Drive.
Lamp Post Feet
April 25, 1976
The base of a lamp post formed in the shape of crouched legs and feet. The lamp post is at the old main Post Office/Madison Municipal Building, 215 Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard ...
Commerce Building
May 19, 1957
University of Wisconsin Commerce Building, Mark Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, interior view of the auditorium (B-10) from the front. Law, Law, Potter and Nystrom, architects.
