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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 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.
Ice Slide at Truax Field
February 23, 1950
Children play on an ice slide created by two residents of the barracks apartments at Truax Field. A swing set is in the background.
Truax Barracks Fire
November 6, 1948
Truax barracks building where a kerosene explosion and fire fatally burned Mrs. Walter (Dorothy) Alburn, and seriously burned her husband and two of their children.
Abandoned Army Shooting Range
August 7, 1947
Abandoned army shooting range at Truax Field, with Police Officer Lester Shore in the lower right foreground.
Flight Training at Truax Field
1944
Instructor on the wing of a biplane talking with an airman trainee in the cockpit of a plane during flight training at Truax Field during World War II.
"Truax Field Calling" Radio Show
September 18, 1944
Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. Conferring, left to right, are Corp. Peter Turgeon, writer-producer; Chief Warrant Off...
