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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 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.
Bathing Beauties
Two women strike a pose on the beach wearing bathing suits. One woman wears a bathing cap, the other a headband.
Woman About to Dive
1920
A woman dressed in a bathing suit, shoes and cap is about to dive off of a pier into the water. A rowboat is tethered on the right. Trees can be seen on the shoreline in the background. Another wom...
Swimmers in Lake Monona
1897
Original title reads, "Bathers assemble [swimmers in Lake Monona]." Women and men, wearing suits, hats, and long dresses, are standing near the lake shoreline looking on as others swim in the lake.
Bathing Beach in Bermuda
Elevated view of Bermuda shoreline. Several dwellings stand on top of the island and people swim in the ocean on the beaches below.
Swimmers at the Beach
A large group of men, women, and children stand in the water wearing bathing suits while others look on from a pavilion in the background. Several flags can also be seen atop the pavilion, and tree...
