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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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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.
Senior Citizens and Their Heirlooms
May 13, 1958
William F. Schroeder is shown holding an album containing medals he won as a bicycle racer in the 1890s. He raced at Darlington in 1895; at Platteville in 1896 and a muddy Sun Prairie-to-Madison i...
Edmund B. Gray
Quarter-length oval framed portrait of Edmund Gray, wearing a military medal on his jacket.
Arthur MacArthur, Jr.
Three-quarter length portrait of Major General Arthur MacArthur in profile, wearing a military uniform and holding a sword, and a hat.
Hosea Rood
1910
Three-quarter length portrait of Hosea Rood as G.A.R. Department Patriotic Instructor. He wears a medal and holds a hat.
Studio Portrait of Man Riding Bicycle
A man poses on a bicycle for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. The man is well-dressed in a hat, suit jacket, and trousers. He wears two unidentifiable medals on his lapel.
Jerome A. Watrous
Jerome A. Watrous in uniform, wearing medals for his military service during the Civil War and the Spanish-American War.
