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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 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.
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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.
Crocheting Doilies
April 17, 1957
A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother."
Woman with Dollhouse
November 14, 1955
Woman making a small adjustment to an interior room in a dollhouse.
Woman Using Sewing Machine
1955
Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background.
Roasting Chickens
January 23, 1957
A man clad in a chef's apron tests a pan of chicken for doneness.
Boy with Hula-Hoop
September 22, 1967
A boy is twirling a "hula-hoop" around his neck while another child is watching from the left foreground.