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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson in Court
Shirley Abrahamson standing in a courtroom. A judge is sitting behind her. She is addressing a woman sitting in the foreground.
Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson in Her Kitchen
Shirley Abrahamson in her kitchen preparing Minute Rice.
Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson
Head and shoulders portrait of Shirley Abrahamson. She is smiling.
Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson in a Library
Shirley Abrahamson is standing in a library reaching for a book. A man is sitting in the foreground.
Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson
September 6, 1976
Shirley Abrahamson, the first woman to be appointed as a Justice of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, takes her oath. Chief Justice Bruce Beilfuss is on the right.
