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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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Lost in Madison
1965
A family of travelers in a convertible asks directions of a gasoline attendant at a rest stop near Madison.
Interstate Median
1965
At many places in Wisconsin, the Interstate Highway is divided by a wide median strip that provides a scenic view for the motorist. This photograph shows a section I-90/94 in Sauk County. Such sc...
Motel with Swimming Pool
1965
The Valley Motel and Colonial Restaurant at the intersection of Highways 41 and 29. This motel boasts that it has a large lighted swimming pool as well as television, radio, and music in every room.
Uphoff's Swimming Pool
circa 1960 -- 1969
Swimming pool at Uphoff's Motel, with windows to street and lobby.
Pool at Gordon Lodge
circa 1970-1979
A woman in a bathing suit is standing on the edge of a swimming pool and taking a photograph of two children swimming.
Interstate Highway Sign
October 1961
An Interstate I-90/94 sign near Portage taken by the Division of Tourism.
