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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.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
Accessing Collections
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.
Teeter Totter
September 12, 1971
Children fashioned their seesaw using a board, and a barricade with a sign that reads: "Road Closed" that they found in an empty lot.
Catching a Water Balloon
July 13, 1989
A boy stretches to catch a water-filled balloon.
Stilts Walker
August 7, 1989
Jay Taylor, age 12, demonstrates his skill on stilts with a walk down E. Nock Street.
Mother Feeding Infant
September 1, 1971
A young mother feeds her infant baby food outdoors.
