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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.
Construction in Library Periodical Room
January 1955
Construction work on the mezzanine shelving in the old Library Periodical Room. The old shelving was reconfigured, beams installed, and an small office created to house the Wisconsin Historical So...
Periodicals Room Ceiling
February 8, 1955
Southeast corner of Room #227,in the Wisconsin Historical Society. The old Periodicals Room, showing the original ceiling decoration and new wall construction.
Library Reading Room Construction
1954
Historical Society Library Reading Room during the modernization of the 1950s, with materials and furniture stored at one end of the room.
Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room
1955
Historical Society Library Reading Room and the Visitors Gallery after their modernization during the mid-1950s. Prominent among the visible changes are a new circulation/reference desk; microfilm...
Library Staff and Service Desk
February 8, 1955
Library staff members at the new consolidated service desk in the Historical Society Library Reading Room. Microfilm cubicles have not yet been installed and the original light fixtures on the wal...
Modernization in the SHSW Library
February 8, 1955
Scaffolding in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room constructed for the replacement of the glass skylights and original light fixtures. One of the original light fixtures can be seen.
