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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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Education Press Conference
1978
Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (center) holding a press conference about federal funding for education with students at Ellis School. A few journalists are present taking notes.
Learning Their Numbers
1978
Teacher Dorothy Ledin teaching numbers to two pre-schoolers using a board with removable numbers and dots at Ellis School.
Environmental Studies
1978
Students at Wausau West High School involved in an innovative science project that studied energy consumption and pollution of the Wisconsin River.
Office Skills Class
1978
Business and Office Skills Class at Tomahawk High School. Nine students work at their typewriters.
Title I PreSchoolers
1978
Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with pre-schoolers and their teacher at Ellis School, a program supported in part by Title I federal funding. Throughout his career Obey was a strong supporter o...
Obey and Madison
circa 1970-1979
Congressman David R. Obey (right) and his home secretary Jerry Madison, also a Wausau history teacher, traveling in the district on an airplane.
