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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 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.
Swimming Safety
May 14, 1944
Lifeguard Georgia Haas is applying artificial respiration to Lewis Noonan at the beach.
Madison City Fire Department Fire Chief
September 30, 1944
Retiring Madison Fire Department Chief Richard Widmann with new Chief, Edward J. Page. Mrs. Richard Widmann (Leonore) looks on.
Fire Chief Edward J. Page
September 13, 1944
Portrait of Edward J. Page, selected as new chief of Fire Department by the Police and Fire Commission. He is a fourteen year veteran of the Fire Department.
Artificial Respiration Training Class
May 10, 1945
City of Madison Lifeguard Training class at the YMCA pool, 207 West Washington Avenue. Performing artificial respiration of Bill Bailey are left to right: Dolores Corcoran, Pat Patterson, Natalie ...
First National Bank Party
November 6, 1944
Some of the crowd at a First National Bank party watching bowlers.
