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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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Truax Field Control Tower
December 22, 1953
Edward C. Waffle, in charge of the tower for the Air Force, is talking with a pilot from the Truax Field control tower by speaking into a handheld radio transmitter while looking out of the observa...
Weather Bureau Operation at Truax Field Control Tower
December 22, 1953
Harold Evans launching a weather balloon from the pilot balloon shelter on top of the Truax Field control tower.
Weather Bureau Operation at Truax Field Control Tower
December 22, 1953
Chief of weather operations, L.A. Joos, is on the telephone, while W.C. Williamson is standing at a slanted desk checking one of several weather maps. They are working in the Truax Field control to...
New Truax Field Officers Club
December 5, 1953
Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Major William I. Ryrom, director of material at Truax Field, and Mrs. Ryrom, pre...
New Truax Field Officers Club
December 5, 1953
Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Left to right: Lt. Col. Harry W. Shoup, commanding officer of Truax Field, Mrs. S...
Truax Field Playground Costume Party
August 16, 1957
Mickey Toseff, 10, gives his brother Jeff, 3, a piggy-back ride at the Truax Field Playground Costume Party.
