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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.
Zeppelin LZ 127
1928
The frame of the Graf Zeppelin being built, surrounded by scaffolding in a hangar in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Zeppelin Passenger Cabin
1928
A passenger cabin on the Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127), a luxurious German-built airship. The Graf Zeppelin was taken out of service about a month after the Hindenberg disaster in 1937, briefly converted ...
The LZ 127 Zeppelin in flight
1928
The Graf Zeppelin airship, 776 feet long, could travel at a speed of up to 80 miles per hour, powered by five 550 horse-power Maybach engines. Hydrogen gas used to achieve lift. The lighter-than-...
Army Balloon
1904
The first dirigible purchased by the U.S. Army and its builder, Thomas A. Baldwin.
Red Devil Builder
circa 1920-1929
An autographed portrait of Thomas S. Baldwin, builder of the early "Red Devil" airplanes and the first dirigible purchased by the U.S. Army.
Fokker Portrait
1938
Portrait of Anthony Fokker, inscribed to aviation publicist, Harry Bruno. Bruno represented the airplane manufacturer on several occasions, including the 1925 Ford Reliability Tour.
