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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.
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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 Capitol Square
1928
Aerial view of Capitol Square and vicinity, looking east-northeast. State Street is visible at the bottom center.
State Street Side of the Capitol Square
Aerial view of the Capitol Square, with Capitol Park and part of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Manchester's is on the corner of Mifflin Street at Wisconsin Avenue, and Mifflin, Carroll, and State st...
Aerial View of the Capitol Square
1950
Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol and Square.
Aerial View of Isthmus
1955
An air view of Madison's downtown area with the Wisconsin State Capitol and new State Office Buildings.