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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
The Boardroom
1951
Men in suits are sitting around an oval-shaped table while another man with his back to the camera gives a presentation.
Sewing Group
May 31, 1964
A circle of women talk, sew and thread needles around a Singer sewing machine.
Chet Huntley with Equipment
1956
Chet Huntley, manning a portable television unit, for coverage of 1956 political conventions.
Tailor at his Sewing Machine
A tailor sews a military uniform in his ship at the Massanutten Military Academy, with finished uniforms folded on the table behind him.
Shorewood Hills Community League Minstrel Show
October 26, 1951
The "Old South" came to life as the Shorewood Hills Community League presented its minstrel show to Shorewood Hills residents and guests. Playing the roles of "end men" (in blackface) are Fritz Car...
Portable Fan
June 14, 1956
Sam Adair of 4380 N Wildwood Av., Shorewood, Wisconsin wearing fan labeled Rheem Personal Portable Air Conditioner around his neck to stay cool.
