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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Wisconsin State Legislature
January 14, 1953
Group portrait of Wisconsin legislators sitting in the Assembly Chamber to hear Governor Kohler's message.
Wisconsin State Legislators
January 14, 1953
Wisconsin legislators sitting in the Assembly Chamber while listening to Governor Kohler's message.
Drum and Bugle Corps Officials
April 17, 1955
Three men at a table at a contest clinic for drum & bugle corps officials held at the Madison Community Center.
Family Reading the Bible
March 1, 1953
A family sits around a table eating a snack and listening to the older son reading from the bible.
State Legislative Page
July 17, 1947
A legislative page sits on a table in a doorway in the Wisconsin State Capitol awaiting adjournment of the state legislature.
First Official Dial Telephone Call in Madison
September 30, 1949
Maple Bluff fire chief Lawrence Nielsen places the first official dial call on Madison's new 100 percent dial phone service.
