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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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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.
Commencement at Camp Randall
1954
Graduation at Camp Randall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Graduates in Caps and Gowns
June 1, 1957
Graduates in caps and gowns attend the graduation ceremony.
Graduate Sitting in Empty Bleachers
1979
Male graduate wearing robes and sitting on the bottom row of empty bleachers holding his mortarboard.
Graduate Blowing Bubbles
May 21, 1989
Marquette University graduate blowing bubbles before his graduation ceremony at the Bradley Center.
Pomp and Circumstance
1977
Grade school children are pretending their diplomas are binoculars in a graduation ceremony. They are wearing hand made robes, and caps with a pom pom instead of a tassel.