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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.
U.S. Army Medal Ceremony
December 1947
Seven Army soldiers receiving medals from an officer.
Police Officer Robert O'Brien With Wooden Guns
March 8, 1947
Police Officer Robert O'Brien showing guns he carved.
Truax Barracks Fire
December 6, 1948
Police officers Robert O'Neil (left) and Frank Eisele standing next to the charred crib from which infant Walter Alburn, Jr. was rescued by neighbors in the Truax barracks apartment where a kerosen...
Lost Airplane Canopy
March 8, 1954
Police Officer Robert Ferris stands near a canopy that ripped loose from a Truax Field jet fighter and landed in the Rentschler Floral Company plat a block from Madison West High School.
