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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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Cemetery Maintenance
August 27, 1980
Slightly elevated view of a man mowing the lawn at the Veterans' Administration Wood National Cemetery.
Halloween Parade
October 31, 1977
Thousands of people from the inner city flocked to a Halloween Party given to help keep children off the street during the holiday.
Arms Child with Jack-O-Lantern
October 1966
One of Lewis Arms's children (most likely Paul Arms) is wearing a Halloween mask and holding a jack-o-lantern. He is standing in front of a rocking horse on springs.
Night for Beggars
October 31, 1963
A group of children in Halloween costumes are reaching out their hands. Caption reads: "Night for Beggars Spooks and goblins prowled the city's streets Wednesday night for the annual pre-Halloween ...
Green Sheet Costume
October 31, 1987
Amanda Basile of Milwaukee's Northwest side dressed as the Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet for Halloween. She made the costume with her mother Penny Chapman by dying a sheet green and fastening green...
