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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.
Doris Porter, Secretary
October 3, 1951
Doris Porter, of 1224 Jennifer Street, sits behind a desk in an office. She is the private secretary to Governor Walter J. Kohler.
Optimist Week
October 6, 1951
Mayor George Forster signs a document proclaiming November 11 to November 17 as Optimist Week. Looking on are John Canny, right, Madison Newspaper, Inc. and Richard Nickeson, Optimist Week chairman.
Madison Youth Council
November 2, 1954
Madison mayor George Forster greets the new Madison Youth Council president George Chryst at the annual banquet. Mayor Forster administered the oath of office to the new officers.
"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Members
January 28, 1949
Roundy Coughlin, columnist and reporter, and Edith Goodman, his secretary, at her desk.
Lola Bradford, Secretary
October 3, 1951
Lola Bradford, of 933 Waban Hill, standing at a desk in an office. She is secretary and administrative assistant for Edwin B. Fred, University of Wisconsin president.
Joseph O'Brien
October 24, 1951
Portrait of a man, probably Joseph O'Brien of the Badger Insurance Agency, seated at a desk.
