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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.
Attribution
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.
Girl Scouts Making Punch
November 14, 1966
African American junior Girl Scouts pouring fruit juice into a punch bowl as they prepare to entertain their parents.
Ticket Sales Statistics
March 7, 1955
Men looking over charts at a Boy Scout circus ticket sales meeting.
Switchboard Operator
January 23, 1958
Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
Alimony Payment
September 19, 1958
County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband.
Locomotive Artifacts
March 29, 1958
A young boy rings a locomotive bell. Other artifacts of locomotive history are on the table before him with members of the Milwaukee chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.
Bullheaded Bovine
August 13, 1970
A boy tries to convince a Hereford to walk down a ramp at the fairgrounds.
