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| The richest resource about Sen. William Proxmire's life and times. Unpublished papers fill over 200 boxes, more than 7,500 pages are available online. |
| Explore our physical and digital collections of more than 25,000 maps and atlases, which focus on Wisconsin, the Midwest, the U.S. and Canada. |
| Learn how to access and explore the McCormick-International Harvester Collection. |
| More than 2,000 feature articles totaling more than 30,000 pages are online. |
| Explore our physical and online collections of Civil War materials including Wisconsin regimental histories, maps, casualty lists, lettters and more. |
| Explore our Visual Materials collection of nearly 3 million images in more than 6,000 collections. Over 80,000 images are available online. |
| Learn about the wide range of visual materials subjects available to view both online and in our Archives |
| The Society owns one of the nation's richest collections of Civil Rights movement records, including more than 100 manuscript collections on Freedom Summer |
| The Society’s museum collections include 110,000 historical objects and about 500,000 archaeological items that document the history of Wisconsin. |
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| Learn how to access the extensive microfilm collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Learn about our local government records holdings and how to access them. |
| Learn about our Mass Communications History collections and how to access them. |
| See an overview of the Society's Social Action holdings. |
| See an overview of the Society's North American History Collection. |
| See an overview of the Society's Draper Manuscripts Collection. |
| Learn how Civil War Records are organized and how to purchase copies. |
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| Learn how Civil War Records are organized and how to purchase copies. |
| Photographs and Poetic Texts |
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| Explore this online image collection from one of the country's most respected scholars in the field of photography and archives. |
| See an overview of the Society's Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture Collection. |
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