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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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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.
Sliding Into Home Plate
September 22, 1956
A baseball player sliding into home plate as the umpire is looking on.
Baseball Player Sliding Into Base
Baseball player sliding into base as the umpire looks on.
Eddie Mathews Slides into Home
July 7, 1957
Eddie Mathews, third baseman for the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, sliding into home plate. Chicago Cubs catcher Cal Neeman is applying the tag as Braves third base coach, Connie Ryan is looking on.
Baseball Player with Folded Hands
May 14, 1959
Close-up view of a Milwaukee Braves baseball player resting his chin on his folded hands.
Warren Spahn
circa 1953
Warren Spahn, famous left-handed pitcher of the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, completes a pitch to the batter.
Wittenberg Grays Baseball Team
1920
Studio portrait of Wittenberg Grays baseball team in uniform with balls, bats and gloves in foreground. Third player from the left is Melvin Schlytter (catcher).
