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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.
Splash Party
August 1, 1970
To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built.
Raking Leaves
October 18, 1984
Young boy and girl make the autumn chore of leaf-raking fun.
Children Relaxing in the Pool
June 18, 1989
Overhead view of four children relaxing in a wading pool.
Backyard Swimming Pool
July 25, 1980
A family relaxes by their backyard pool, while a father tosses his infant son gently in the air.
Portable Fan
June 14, 1956
Sam Adair of 4380 N Wildwood Av., Shorewood, Wisconsin wearing fan labeled Rheem Personal Portable Air Conditioner around his neck to stay cool.
