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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.
Attribution
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.
Aerial View of Wisconsin State Capitol
1954
Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol, including a bit of the airplane wing.
Aerial View of Isthmus
1955
An air view of Madison's downtown area with the Wisconsin State Capitol and new State Office Buildings.
Madison's Truax Runway
1954
Aerial view of a new landing strip at Truax Field as photographed from a low-flying airplane.
Aerial View of Wisconsin Power and Light Company
1940
Aerial view of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company generating plant and dam.
Municipal Airport Administration Building
1955
An aerial view at Truax Field showing the Municipal Airport Administration Building.
