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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 Grill Room
May 8, 1964
A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business.
Baking Hazelnut Torte
May 5, 1964
A woman wearing an apron preparing a hazelnut torte from a prized recipe.
Swearing Allegiance
May 2, 1963
During part of a ceremony, citizens raise their right hands and swear allegiance to the United States in the federal building to receive citizenship certificates.
Reading Circle
August 6, 1963
A mother reads stories on her front steps to children from around the block.
Power Sewing Class
January 16, 1967
Instructor Ida Mussa (left) assists student Victoria Vega in a power sewing class at Milwaukee Vocational School. Vega is sewing an apron on a Singer sewing machine.
Man Bobbing for Apples
November 10, 1963
A college male successfully plunges for an apple while a college female looks on.
