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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.
WWI Ace
1918
Rodney Williams, a World War I pilot from Delafield, Wisconsin, posed wearing his U.S. Air Service uniform. With five enemy aircraft downed in July 1918, Williams was the only Wisconsin aviator to...
Jesse Brabazon in Wright Model B
1912
Jesse C. Brabazon of Delavan, Wisconsin in a 1911 Wright Model B, the first Wright plane designed to carry a passenger and a pilot. Previously, the passenger sat on the wing and held on tight. This...
Jesse Brabazon in a Wright Model B
October 8, 1912
Jesse Brabazon of Delavan, Wisconsin, in a Wright Model B following an emergency landing at Cicero Field in Chicago. Inspecting the faulty propeller that caused the landing are DeLloyd Thompson and...
Student with Pilot Trainer
January 3, 1945
Sgt. Lois Burmeister at the controls of an ambulatory trainer which permits blind flying by instrument instruction by the Civil Air Patrol.
Unidentified Civil War Soldier
Three-quarter length seated portrait of an unidentified Civil War soldier.
Civil War Recruits
Recruits in their camp grey uniforms, before they were issued their regular blues.
