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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.
Mirror Lake Bridge Construction
November 16, 1960
Elevated view of the interstate highway bridge construction at Mirror Lake showing the concrete footings halfway down the embankment.
Workers at Mirror Lake Bridge Construction
1960
View from below looking up towards workers constructing and reinforcing the forms for the footings of the interstate highway bridge at Mirror Lake.
Mirror Lake Bridge Construction
1960
Aerial view of the construction of the interstate highway near Mirror Lake, showing only the early stages of the bridge construction.
Interstate Bridge Framework
1961
View taken from below of the Interstate Highway I-535 bridge during construction.
Ahnapee & Western Railway Bridge
January 6, 1958
Ahnapee & Western Railway Bridge construction. View is from Highway Bridge. There are ships on the right side beyond the bridge. The forested shoreline curves around on the left. The lake is frozen.
Construction Work on the New Free Bridge
1931
View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and Shafer - Contractors - Saint Paul, Minneapo...
