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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.
Swimming, Country Style
July 1950
Swimming country style on a farm in the Kettle Moraine State Forest. Two boys are swimming in a large wooden cattle tank and three young children are perched on a sand pile, watching. In the backgr...
4-H Fair
July 21, 1954
A boy is lining up his bull for judging in the Waukesha County Junior Fair. The event is taking place in a tent. Spectators in folding chairs are sitting on the left.
Watertown Park
May 1950
Weeping willows overhanging the Rock River in Watertown, Wisconsin.
Capitol Square
1950
Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol building and surrounding Madison area. Lake Monona is in the background.
After the Storm
January 1952
Snow scene along County Trunk Highway A after a snow storm. The snow has drifted alongside a wooden fence in the foreground. There are power poles and a snow covered road on the right, and a farm o...
