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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.
Bascom Hall
1910
View up Bascom Hill showing Lincoln Monument in front of Bascom Hall with dome (formerly Main Hall).
Bascom Hall
1915
Bascom Hall exterior with dome (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Lincoln Monument is in front of the entrance.
Bascom Hall
An exterior view of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Burning of Bascom Hall Dome
October 10, 1916
People walking along the Linden Drive path watch as Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) dome burns on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Fire destroyed the ornate dome.
Bascom Hall
1910
Exterior of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The dome and south wing pictured here were built in 1899.
Bascom Hall
1917
Exterior of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. View from Bascom Hill includes the Lincoln Monument in front of the entrance.
