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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.
Circus Performers Gather to View Eclipse
circa 1900-1909
Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus performers gathered in front of a circus tent to view a solar eclipse. Some are wearing protective eyeglasses.
Trout Fishing on Brule River
circa 1920-1929
View from shoreline towards eight men trout fishing on the Brule River.
Fisherman with Equipment and Catch
circa 1875
Studio portrait of a fisherman with his lure, spear, and catch.
Ringling Circus Wagon and Clowns
1910
A Ringling Circus wagon, pulled by a horse, with clowns riding on top, is part of a parade along a city street.
