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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.
Grave of the Unknown
1975
A veteran places a flower on the grave of an unknown soldier.
Memorial Day Parade
May 31, 1954
Children lining the street for the Memorial Day parade around Capitol Square.
Girl at Memorial Day Parade
May 28, 2007
A young girl dressed in red, white, and blue is watching the Memorial Day parade while holding an American flag and sitting in a chair on the sidewalk.
Patriotic Observance
July 1978
A crowd of people gather for Flag Day on Wilson Street. Many have their hands on their hearts.
University Houses Memorial Day Parade
May 30, 1950
Children of University of Wisconsin faculty living in University Houses at Eagle Heights are costumed as Native Americans, cowboys, and flowers are marching in a Memorial Day parade on gaily decora...
Memorial Day Parade
Elevated view of patriotic parade on Main Street, probably a Memorial Day Parade. Over the street, reaching from one sidewalk to the other, is an arch decorated with evergreen boughs, bunting and f...
