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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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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.
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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.
Swimming Race at Camp Wakanda
1923
Boys line up on pier for swimming race at Camp Wakanda.
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.
Swimmers at Lake Calhoun
June 26, 1927
A group of three swimmers, two men and one woman, posing on the beach at Lake Calhoun.
Motorboating
1955
View of woman smiling and wearing a bathing suit while sitting in the back of a motorboat. She is steering the outboard motor on a lake. Behind her is the wake, and in the far background is a shore...
