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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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Man with Wings
March 23, 1905
An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird wing-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation.
Atomic Energy
Students and teacher in classroom demonstrating an experiment with atomic energy.
Girl with "Tracto" the "Talking" Robot
July 27, 1960
A young girl with a lollipop looks up at "Tracto," a robot made of tractor parts for International Harvester's exhibits at state fairs. From the original press release: "the eight-foot 'talking' r...
Meeting "Happy Tooth"
April 24, 1989
Children meet "Happy Tooth", a robot sponsored by Colgate toothpaste on a 30-state tour to promote dental hygiene to young school children.
Attempting to Fly - Anaglyph
1909
An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation.
"Tracto" the "Talking" Robot Holding Child
July 27, 1960
A young girl eating a lollipop is perched in the crook of the arm of "Tracto," a robot made of tractor parts. Tracto was part of International Harvester exhibits at state fairs. From the original p...
