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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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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.
Orville Wright in Old Age
circa 1920-1929
Portrait of Orville Wright inscribed to aviation publicist and historian Harry Bruno, whose collection of papers and photographs is housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives.
Glenn Martin Portrait
circa 1920-1929
A portrait of aviation manufacturer Glenn L. Martin, inscribed to aviation publicist, Harry Bruno. Bruno's papers are available for research at the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives.
Flying Tea Party
circa 1920-1929
A tea party on an airplane, a publicity stunt conceived by Harry Bruno to promote his Cleveland-area airline, Aeromarine Airlines. By taking local reporters and photographers along on an aerial tea...
Fokker Portrait
1938
Portrait of Anthony Fokker, inscribed to aviation publicist, Harry Bruno. Bruno represented the airplane manufacturer on several occasions, including the 1925 Ford Reliability Tour.
Army Balloon
1904
The first dirigible purchased by the U.S. Army and its builder, Thomas A. Baldwin.
Zeppelin LZ 127
1928
The Graf Zeppelin, a German-made dirigible in a hangar almost ready for its maiden voyage.
