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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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Skin Divers Posing with Fish
July 12, 1955
Dick Charmley and Gary Davies standing on the shore of Lake Mendota with a fish (carp) they caught while spear fishing.
Ice Fishing
January 3, 1948
Ice fishing on Lake Mendota. A traffic problem was created in the village of Maple Bluff during the weekend when hundreds of persons from all parts of southern Wisconsin descended on Lake Mendota t...
Ice Fishing on Lake Mendota
January 19, 1951
Russ Bartholomew, left, and "Bud" Bond ice fish on Lake Mendota.
Ice Fishing
January 3, 1948
Hundreds of persons from all parts of southern Wisconsin descend on Lake Mendota to fish through the ice for perch and other pan fish. The picture was taken from a spot about a mile out from Maple ...
Ice Fishing on Lake Mendota
January 19, 1951
Helen Viktora and Magdalen Viktora ice fish on Lake Mendota.
Fisherman Lester Shore
April 9, 1948
Police Officer Lester Shore, holding a "River Shiner" fishing lure, for which he holds a patent. It is a casting plug that has a metal lip and shaft and imitates the appearance and action of the sh...
