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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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Flag Day Ceremony
June 13, 1954
Jerry Host, former state American Legion commander, gives the address during Flag Day ceremonies at the Madison Veterans Administration Hospital with the Madison Zor Shrine band in the background.
Flag Day at Veteran's Hospital
June 15, 1953
View across road towards eight members of Madison American Legion and its Auxiliary posed and raising a large new flag at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in observation of Flag Day.
Memorial Day Activities
May 30, 1952
Two veterans with a confederate flag in front of Confederate Rest in Forest Hill Cemetery during Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies.
Armistice Day Commemoration
November 11, 1948
Robert Babcock, Lodi, places the American Legion auxiliary post Number 57 memorial wreath at the front of the memorial obelisk on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Capitol during Armistice Day com...
Armistice Day Commemoration
November 11, 1948
Color bearers from the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the two American Legion posts, the Spanish-American War veterans, their auxiliaries, and wreath bearers march past the memorial ...
Armistice Day Ceremony
November 11, 1947
Armistice Day ceremony, looking down State Street, with a drum and bugle corps on the left and other veterans in uniform standing at attention near the cenotaph. The ceremony is taking place at the...
