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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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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.
Children and Their Pets
December 5, 1950
Brothers Jim, age 13, and John Gannon, age 10, gazing upon their small pet alligator named "Friday" that they received a year and a half previous from New Orleans, Louisiana on Good Friday.
Children and Their Pets
December 5, 1950
Douglas Shaw Woodman, age 3, sitting with his Persian cat, "Mr. Thomas."
Leo Scheberle Residence
October 28, 1953
Interior view of the den and recreation room in the residence of Leo Scheberle. The room features a fireplace, wood paneling, and shag carpeting.
Children and Their Pets
December 5, 1950
Arthur Wegner Jr., age 13, and siblings Anne, 6, and Dick, 10, looking down into an aquarium containing their 200 pet guppies as Dick is hugging the boys dog, "Fifty-Fifty."
Children and their Pets
December 5, 1950
Three children in riding clothes posing with their animals inside a horse stable. The children are, left to right, Anne, age 15, Chuckie, age 6, and Susie Forsberg, age 13. The horses are "Red Ligh...
Madison Playground Scene
July 26, 1950
Group portrait of children with their pets at the Lake Edge playground.
