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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.
Bicycle Racers
1930 - 1939
Group of racers bank around a turn on a velodrome track.
Photographers at the Strobo Research Lab
circa 1930-1939
Photographers demonstrating strobe light functions at Frank Scherschel's Strobe Research Lab. Frank Scherschel is in the back on the righthand side, wearing a black necktie.
High Security
circa 1930-1939
Multiple locks secure a massive ancient-looking door.
Mennonite Children Walking on Road
circa 1930-1939
Five Mennonite children walking down the middle of the road after a fishing trip.
Les Bentley
circa 1930-1939
Portrait of artist, Lester Bentley, wearing an apron and sitting in his studio holding a brush, a pipe and a painters palette.
Directing Traffic
1939
A Chicago police officer holds up his hand to signal pedestrians that they should not enter the crosswalk.
