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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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Lapham School Radio Room
April 29, 1931
Ben Park, sitting in a chair, is talking to all the classrooms in Lapham school through the radio microphone in the office of Shirley D. Almy, principal. The school is located at 1436 E. Dayton Str...
Kindergarten Grocery Display
October 29, 1930
Six kindergarten children wearing aprons stand in front of a classroom grocery display at Lapham School, 1436 E. Dayton Street.
Volunteers of America Office & Service Shop
July 14, 1933
Volunteers of America Service Office and Service Shop, 414 S. Baldwin Street. Also shows the old Marquette School in the background.
Washington School
April 27, 1944
North Bedford Street entrance to Washington School (aka Madison Metropolitan School District Ruth Doyle Administration Building), 545 West Dayton Street.
Draper School Project
May 4, 1933
Draper School fourth grade project, showing a girl dressed in a Norwegian costume in a Norwegian scene.