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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.
Wisconsin State Capitol (Second) Engraving
1854
Engraving of the first capitol building built in Madison used as an illustration by the Madison Mutual Insurance Company, a first insurance company, the directors of which included Simeon Mills, B....
Had few houses Wisconsin of 1837
Feb 18, 1920
Milwaukee Sentinel
Survey leaves account of trip through Wisconsin wilds to site of Madison in 1837
Sep 16, 1923
Wisconsin State Journal
Interior of National Capitol
Interior of the National Capitol in Washington, D.C. In a marble decorated room, there are marble statues of men representing each state.
Travel By Train, Washington, D.C. Travel Poster
1934
An original lithograph promoting Washington, D.C. as "the city that every American should know," and to get there by way of train travel. The poster depicts an elevated view of the National Mall, i...