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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.
Hupfeld Violin Machine at House on the Rock
The Hupfeld Violin Machine is set into the wall. This image was used in the original House on the Rock brochure.
Violin Carousel at House on the Rock
A Mills Violano Virtuoso adds frets and strings to violins. This image was used in the original House on the Rock brochure.
Oversized Music Box at House on the Rock
Large glass fronted case filled with instruments. A young girl is sitting on the front of the case which is in the main house. One of several photographs used in a brochure for House on the Rock.
Elevated View of House on the Rock
Elevated view of House on the Rock and surrounding trees and hills.
Walkway Entrance to House on the Rock
A sundial on the walkway shows the time around sunset at the entrance to the main house at House on the Rock.
Aerial View of House on the Rock
Aerial view of House on the Rock in the fall. The structures are partially hidden by trees.