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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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First Methodist Church Easter Pageant
April 20, 1935
First Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue. Easter pageant, with large group of actors in costume in a scene on "stage" in the chancel.
Nativity Christmas Pageant
December 1943
The cast of the Nativity Christmas pageant of Blessed Sacrament Church, posed on a stairway in their costumes.
First Methodist Church Pageant
December 13, 1960
The Three Wise Men in the Christmas pageant at First Methodist Church will wear silk-embroidered robes which came from a Buddhist monastery in China. The robes belong to Eva Brewster who bought the...
Bethel Lutheran Church
May 27, 1945
Bethel Lutheran Church, located at 318 Wisconsin Avenue. Confirmation class standing in the chancel area congregation, with the choir and ministers visible.
Minstrel Show Actors
February 28, 1933
Minstrel show actors, sitting on stage, in costume and blackface with a small orchestra sitting below, at Luther Memorial Church, 1023 University Avenue.
Chancel Area of St. Patrick's Catholic Church
February 20, 1958
Interior view of the ornately decorated chancel area of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, located at 410 East Main Street.
