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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.
Fire Fighters on Ladders
1910
Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building.
Father Groppi Resting with Marchers
1967
Father James Groppi sitting with several of his fellow marchers, some in Milwaukee N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council shirts. Groppi has taken off one of his shoes.
NAACP March with Police Escort
1967
Father James Groppi (center) and the NAACP participate in a civil rights march. Police are armed and escorting the protestors. The marchers are passing an establishment named Johnny's.
Father Groppi at School Boycott
Father James Groppi and students from Boniface School join the public school boycott. They're clapping their hands and appear to be chanting.
Burning Building
October 17, 1944
Elevated view from rooftop of smoke billowing out of the roof of a burning brick building. Fire fighters are climbing on ladders on the side of the building, and water hoses snake along the ground.
Father Groppi Serving Communion
Father James Groppi serving Communion to a couple at St. Michael's Church.
