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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.
Circus Cook Tent
1942
Cooks preparing food for fellow workers with Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Big Show Circus Tent
1934
A crowd of people stand outside a circus tent. The words "Big Show" are emblazoned over the main entrance.
Gorilla Man for Ringling Brothers Circus
1942
A man in a gorilla suit stands on the tongue of a wagon, holding his mask. He is an employee of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Circus Performers
1935
Circus performer Harriet Hodgini, sits on the gate of a truck helping Otto Griebling, a circus clown, apply his makeup.
Circus Wagon
1936
A circus wagon, hitched to a truck cab, is parked across the street from three houses in a residential neighborhood.
Circus Clown Sitting on Donkey
1909
A circus clown sits astride a donkey outside a tent.
