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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.
Second Ward School House
1868
Illustration of the exterior of the Second Ward School House, copied from the 1868 Madison City Directory.
Second Ward School House
March 9, 1881
Stereograph of a wintery view of the Second Ward School House. A student stands at the edge of the fence line surrounding the school house.
View of Madison
1890
Drawing depicting a distant view across water towards the city of Madison.
Benjamin Walker Castle
1863
View of the grounds of Benjamin Walker Castle, 1862-1893 in the 900 block of East Gorham Street.
Old Post Office
A drawing of the old Post Office on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Mifflin Street.