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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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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.
Children in Sack Race
August 11, 1971
Children wearing large sacks up to their waists and racing each other.
Kiltie Invitational Bonspeil
February 27, 1967
Spectators view of a curling match at Riverside Park.
Sulky Race Track
after 1905
Elevated view of a horse racing track and spectators. Sulkies, which are two-wheeled, one-person carriages drawn by a single horse, are racing. The race possibly took place at Washington Park.
University of Wisconsin College Track Event
1948
Mal Whitfield approaches the finish line of a track race at the University of Wisconsin Stadium.
