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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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Obey and Nelson
circa 1970-1979
Congressman David Obey and Senator Gaylord Nelson in a thoughtful moment. On the wall in the background are landscape photographs.
Obey in the Middle East
circa 1970-1979
Congressman David Obey outdoors in a group of men listening to a speaker in the Middle East. They are surrounded by tents.
Obey Family
1978
The Obey family poses, standing, for a casual outdoor portrait. (Left to right), Craig, Joan, Douglas and David. Douglas is holding a walking stick. Trees and foliage fill the background.
The One That Didn't Get Away
circa 1970-1979
Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, his son Craig, and the catch of the day.
Minnesota vs. Wisconsin Democrats
1972
Before or after a Minnesota vs. Wisconsin Democrats softball game. Congressman David Obey holds up a concept rendering the future Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge. Obeys' Minnesota counterpart holds...
