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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.
Registering to Vote
September 2, 1954
A group of newly naturalized citizens registering to vote at City Hall.
Father with Three Children
May 1958
A father, Peter Froeming, watching as his three children George, Robert, and Roseann are playing with wooden blocks, with a small toy canoe in the foreground.
A Bouquet for Geraldine Ferraro
October 31, 1984
Geraldine Ferraro thanks a little boy and girl for giving her a bouquet of flowers after her speech.
Swearing-In New Citizens
November 21, 1962
Several people are standing in a room, raising their right hands. In the foreground a person's hand is raised. Other people are standing in the background. Caption reads: "Twenty-three new United S...