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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.
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.
Betsy Flood Victims
September 10, 1965
A New Orleans group hold signs as they rally at Mercy Seat Baptist Church for compensation for lives lost and 25,000 homes ruined during a flood. Reverend Roosevelt Johnson stands in the center of ...
Flooded Langdon Street
May 19, 1933
View of Langdon Street during flood from rain. A man is standing ankle deep in water.
Women in the Rain
1900
Three women in hats and long skirts walk with umbrellas in the rain.
Boys Make Big Splash
May 15, 1957
Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There is a railroad car on the bridge. Police r...
Outdoor Living Week
May 25, 1961
A woman and three children standing under umbrellas behind a barrier in the street during Madison's Outdoor Living Week activities.
The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus and Flooded Road
May 30, 1908
The Great Wallace Shows, horses and wagons, were flooded out by a sudden cloudburst.
