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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.
Normal Lawn
September 26, 1910
Text on front reads: "Normal Lawn, Whitewater, Wis." The lawn in front of the Whitewater Normal School. The area is landscaped with trees, shrubs and plants. The school graduated its first class of...
The Old Swimming Hole
1912
Text on front reads: "The Old Swimming Hole, Whitewater, Wis."
Methodist Episcopal Church
October 28, 1911
Text on front reads: "M.E. Church, Whitewater, Wis." A stone church with an ornate steeple on a tree-lined street.
Hotel Walworth
August 8, 1911
Text on front reads: "Hotel Walworth, Whitewater, Wis." A multistory hotel with a raised porch and many balconies.
State Normal School
June 25, 1908
Text on front reads: "State Normal School, Whitewater, Wis." Called "Old Main," this building was built in 1868 and destroyed in a fire in 1970. In the foreground is a lawn on a slope with many tre...
Normal and Lawn
September 5, 1919
Text on front reads: "Normal and Lawn, Whitewater, Wis." Called "Old Main," this building was built in 1868 and destroyed in a fire in 1970. The garden in front was beautifully landscaped.
