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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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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.
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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.
The Third Wisconsin State Capitol
1870
Elevated view over trees toward the third (second in Madison), Wisconsin State Capitol that stood from 1857-1913, from a stereograph original. Elevated view over bare trees.
Fourth Wisconsin State Capitol
1944
Elevated exterior view of the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol.
Wisconsin State Capitol Ruins after Collapse
November 1883
View of the third Wisconsin State Capitol showing the ruins of the South Wing addition after it collapsed during construction.
Wisconsin State Capitol Ruins after Collapse
November 1883
The ruins of the unfinished South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol after its collapse while still under construction.
Fourth Wisconsin State Capitol
1920
Exterior of the third Wisconsin State Capitol built in Madison in 1906-1917.
The Fourth Wisconsin State Capitol
1915
Exterior of the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (the third in Madison).
