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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.
Musicians and Instruments
August 3, 1948
Four youth posing in a classroom with their musical instruments--a violin, cello and two trumpets.
Musician Elmer Ziegler
September 25, 1952
Elmer Ziegler was a musical arranger, conductor, composer, publisher, multi-instrumentalist, instrument repairman, teacher and music store operator. He is seated at a table with a violin and a musi...
Lions Club Collecting Musical Instruments
April 23, 1952
G.I. Wallace and Clarence Graham looking over some of the discarded musical instruments donated to the state-wide project collecting musical instruments for the five state mental institutions.
Goose Island Ramblers
1972
The Goose Island Ramblers performing at Johnny's Packers Inn. Their instruments include accordions, guitar, and a fiddle. Tommy McDermott sits in on a button accordion.
Old Time Fiddlers
April 5, 1948
Posed with their fiddles are Theodore Rygh, Jr., of Woodford, left - third place finisher, and Herman "Tex" Falkenstein, of Madison, right - second place finisher at the Old-Time Fiddlers' contest ...
Bethel Lutheran Trumpeters
November 15, 1951
Portrait of three Bethel Lutheran Church trumpeters in Medieval costumes.
