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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.
Wisconsin State Prison Walls
1893
Exterior view of the Wisconsin State Prison from outside the prison's walls.
Wisconsin State Prison Cell Blocks
1893
Interior of the cell blocks in the Wisconsin State Prison.
Northern Hospital for the Insane
1893
Elevated view of the Northern Hospital for the Insane and its front grounds.
Students in snow outside State Industrial School for Boys
1893
Winter scene with four students from the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys standing outside on the snow-covered school grounds.
Prisoner Lyle Tadder
February 9, 1940
Prison photograph of Lyle Tadder, inmate number 25409, a painter who was convicted of larceny of auto.
