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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.
Roasting Chickens
January 23, 1957
A man clad in a chef's apron tests a pan of chicken for doneness.
Prize Waterfowl
1955
Two young boys and their prize-winning ducks at the 1955 Wisconsin State Fair.
Making Sandbakalese
November 23, 1955
Mrs. Kenneth Jothen, Mrs. Hart Sorum, and Mrs. Gordon Steldt making sanbakalese, or sand tarts, a Norwegian dessert for the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church lutefisk dinner.
Fancy Wedding Cake
June 26, 1955
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Braatz top off the 26-layer wedding cake that Mrs. Braatz made for their daughter's wedding.
Cow Chip Tossing Contest
September 1980
A competitor in the State Cow Chip Tossing Contest has 30 seconds to choose her cow chip. The cow chips are specially made from cow manure.
Crocheting Doilies
April 17, 1957
A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother."
