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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.
Father Reading to Son
December 28, 1981
Father reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain to his son.
Women Cleaning a Canada Goose
October 22, 1984
Two women are working in a kitchen plucking feathers from a goose. Caption reads: Dorothy Pautsch (left) and Jean Kuenzi cleaned a Canada goose at Louis Pautsch's bird-dressing operation.
King Kong Car
October 30, 1984
A five-story tall inflatable gorilla attracted potential buyers to a special sale at the Uptown Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Wauwatosa. Although the presence of a gorilla might seem to confirm th...
Radishes
A woman pours water from a watering can onto several varieties of radishes she has displayed for sale.
Confederacy of Dunces
October 12, 1984
Men wearing Ronald Reagan masks and dunce caps make their way through a crowd.
