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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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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.
Circus Wagon
1936
A circus wagon, hitched to a truck cab, is parked across the street from three houses in a residential neighborhood.
Circus Side Show Posters
circa 1875-1940
People gather near a circus poster display advertising side show attractions.
Trapeze Artist Emily Schadel
1875 - 1940
Studio portrait of trapeze artist Emily Schadel, posing on a trapeze.
George W. Hall, Jr.'s Wagon Show
1911
George W. Hall, Jr.'s wagon show, pulled by horses, travels along a country road.
Couple in Circus Wagon
circa 1875-1940
A man and a woman, in the process of getting dressed for a circus performance, pose informally in the back of a circus wagon.
"Bumpsy" Anthony, Circus Clown
circa 1930-1939
Circus clown, "Bumpsy" Anthony, stands in front of a tent.
