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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.
Halloween Spooks
October 31, 1951
Carl Lueders' children stand at the door and trick-or-treat in their neighborhood on Halloween.
Shopping on the Capitol Square
1956
Several people peer into a storefront window on Capitol Square. This window shopping is perhaps in preparation for the Christmas holiday.
Railroad Mail Car
November 3, 1967
Workers sort mail into bins in a railroad mail car.
Aerial View of McFarland
Aerial view of the town of McFarland, with Lake Waubesa in the background.
Wisconsin State Capitol Holiday Tree
1954
Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda during the holiday season. A man is standing on a ladder which is on top of scaffolding to decorate the tree.
