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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.
Directing Traffic
1939
A Chicago police officer holds up his hand to signal pedestrians that they should not enter the crosswalk.
Dr. Harold Edgerton
circa 1930-1939
"Doc" Edgerton adjusts equipment in the lab. Known for his pioneering work in the development of the electronic flash, his photograph of a splashing milk-drop is his best known work.
Maestro Leads the Orchestra
circa 1930-1939
Members of the orchestra look closely at the conductor as he leads them in the performance of a piece of music.
Kicking the Football
circa 1930-1939
A man dressed in a football uniform demonstrates the art of drop-kicking the football. This is one of several demonstrations of strobe light functions at Frank Scherschel's Strobo Research Lab.
Card Game
circa 1930-1939
A bartender behind the bar is reflected in the mirror of a cigarette machine, while men drink beer and play cards in the foreground.
Polo Players
circa 1930-1939
Polo horses take graceful strides as two players vie to hit the ball at Joy Farms.
