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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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Vilas House Hotel
1868
Stereograph of Madison looking southeast across Lake Monona from the Capitol featuring the Vilas House hotel.
Lakeside Station
1890
Lakeside station near "Water Cure." The Lakeside Water Cure, in today's Olin Park on the south side of Lake Monona, was completed in August 1855. Patients were treated in the steam-heated main bu...
Madison Sanitarium
1907
The Madison Sanitarium on Lakeside Street at Lake Monona, not to be confused with the Lakeside Sanitarium, which was located farther east along the south shore of the lake. The Lakeside Sanitarium...
Monona Avenue
1868
Stereograph of an elevated view of the Vilas House hotel, East Main Street at Monona Avenue.
View of Tonyawatha House
1885
View along shoreline towards Tonyawatha House and several outbuildings on Lake Monona. There is a long dock extending into the lake from a boathouse on the shore. Tonyawatha House was built in 1879...
