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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 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.
A Park Playground
1915
Children playing in a park playground, mainly on a large swing set.
Street Game
circa 1910-1919
Several boys play a street game in a residential area, two blocks away from the deserted playground.
Deserted Playground
circa 1910-1919
A deserted playground with swing sets, slides, and ladders, in front of a group of buildings. There are two young boys near a dwelling in the background.
"A Primitive Instinct"
circa 1910-1919
Two boys attempting to climb a wall on the facade of a building near a window.
Playground at the State Fair
circa 1910-1919
Children playing on the playground at the State Fair. The children form lines to climb up the two tall ladders to slide down a pole. Several children are near the top. There are also 'flying rings'...
Children Playing with Flying Rings
1915
A group of children, mostly boys wearing caps, playing with flying rings outside at a playground in front of a brick building.
