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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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MacArthur Returns
April 18, 1951
After his dismissal by President Truman, General Douglas MacArthur returned to the United States and was welcomed as a folk hero. The adulation heaped on the general reflected badly on the Presid...
Truman Family at Key West
November 25, 1951
President and Mrs. Truman and Margaret Truman motoring from the Little White House to Truman Beach in Key West.
W.J. Bryan Political Cartoon
1900
A political cartoon during the presidential campaign depicting W.J. Bryan repainting a sign with the word "imperialism".
President Truman Holds Newspaper
November 1948
President Harry S. Truman holds up the newspaper which has the headline that mistakenly reports "Dewey Defeats Truman".
Cartoon of Rejected Bill
1961
A cartoon of a rejected bill being sent away by a man in a top hat, who is holding back a dog on a leash.
Cartoon of Bill Passed
circa 1960 -- 1969
A cartoon of a passed bill leaving Assembly holding a sign that reads, "Look Ma, No Veto!".