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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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Holiday Shopper
1976
Elderly man pulling a sled loaded with packages and bags. He is wearing a plaid coat. His dog is sniffing the snow. Trees cover a snow covered berm in the background.
Parting for Progress
1961
Two automobiles driving on a highway cutting between two halves of a rock outcropping. The rock was blasted to build the road.
Family Around Christmas Tree
1850
An engraving depicting a formally dressed family gathered around a Christmas tree, which is lit with candles.
Family Around Christmas Tree
March 14, 1905
A formally dressed family pose around a Christmas tree, probably in their living room. A man is sitting at a piano on the left side, with his hand resting on a baby carriage full of dolls, a young ...
Merry Christmas from Dairyland Power Cooperative Genoa Station No. 3
after 1969
Nighttime view of Dairyland Power Cooperative's Genoa Station Number 3, located near Genoa along the Mississippi River. A lit Christmas tree stands on one building, along with a light-up sign that ...
