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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.
Pearl Harbor Day
December 1980
"Legion members performed a flag burning ceremony on Pearl Harbor Day. Front; Comm. David Metz, Dodge County Comm. Jack Halverson, Gerald Beck & P. Bodden. Back; Tony Geiger, Les Beck, and Willar...
Theresa American Legion on Memorial Day
May 1983
"Theresa American Legion members paid homage to former comrades on Memorial Day at the River Church Cemetery."
World War II Memborabilia
November 1996
"Les Beck displayed World War II memorabilia on Veteran's Day, Nov. 11. Les served 39 months overseas with the famed 32nd Red Arrow Division."
American Legion Birthday Party
March 1998
"At the Legion's 79th Birthday Party, World War II veterans were honored. Commander Greg Krueger presents awards to Ralph Widmer, Navy; Bud Ruecker, Army Air Force; and Les Beck, Army."
Flag Burning Ceremony
November 1995
Gordon Allison, Gary Erdmann, and other members of American Legion Post 270 take part in a flag burning ceremony to commemorate Veteran's Day.
Memorial Day
1976
On Memorial Day American Legion Member Oliver Krueger drops a wreath into the Rock River.
