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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 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.
Astronaut Kids
October 30, 1968
Three children, dressed up in homemade astronaut costumes for Halloween. One clever parent has made good use of a football helmet!
Child at Candy Case
May 7, 1964
Americus Kates, 10, surveys the candy case before making his selections.
Family Night Watching the Tube
September 30, 1967
A woman sits with her ten children surrounding her and watches TV.
Green Sheet Costume
October 31, 1987
Amanda Basile of Milwaukee's Northwest side dressed as the Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet for Halloween. She made the costume with her mother Penny Chapman by dying a sheet green and fastening green...
Halloween Spooks
October 31, 1951
Carl Lueders' children stand at the door and trick-or-treat in their neighborhood on Halloween.
