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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.
Broken Building
1955
View from street towards the exterior of a damaged building. Bricks and boards are scattered outside it. The roof is missing, and windows are cracked or missing. A person is working on top of the b...
Unidentified People — Brittingham Project
1954
A man is sitting on the arm of a chair holding a lighted candle in a glass bottle. A woman wearing a headscarf is sitting in the arm chair. A stove is in the left foreground.
Two Children Outside Broken Building
1955
Two children in winter coats and boots posing outside a building. Bricks are scattered on the ground behind them, and the building has cracked windows.
Building Exterior — Brittingham Project
March 12, 1958
Exterior rear view of building. There is a metal barrel in the left foreground, and a wood and metal structure is leaning away from the side of the building. Two cars are parked at the back of the ...
834 West Washington Avenue
circa 1950-1959
View of a building exterior from across the street. Signs in the shop window read: "Wholesale prices," "TV exchange," "As-built sets $40 & up," "Radios $5 & up," and "Phonograph records." A car is ...
Mayor Ivan Nestigen at Brittingham Project
November 1957
Two men stand on a sidewalk and look in the direction of a sign, which reads: "Brittingham Redevelopment Project UR Wis. 2-1 A Project of City of Madison, Wisconsin This project is undertaken with...
