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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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View of Wisconsin State Capitol and Bascom
1862
Stereograph from Spaight Street neighborhood looking toward Capitol and Bascom Hall.
View over North Hall
circa 1860-1869
Stereograph over North Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus with a view of the Lake Mendota shoreline and isthmus.
Wisconsin State Capitol, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Environs
circa 1860-1869
View of Madison from the Farwell Octagon House (Harvey Hospital/Soldier's Orphans Home). The third Wisconsin State Capitol building (second in Madison), is visible at the left. The University of Wi...
Picnic Point from University Hall
circa 1860-1869
Elevated view of Lake Mendota and Picnic Point from the roof of University Hall (now Bascom Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Second and Third Capitols and Wisconsin Avenue
circa 1860-1869
A view looking south down Wisconsin Avenue toward the Capitol Square where portions of the second and third Wisconsin State Capitols are visible. This perspective provides a better view of the odd ...
2nd Wisconsin State Capitol
circa 1860-1869
Stereograph view of the East Wing of the 2nd Wisconsin State Capitol built in Madison, also showing the pathway to the door then considered to be the front door. and trees in the Capitol Park. No i...
