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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 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.
Herbert Hoover
1920
Head and shoulders portrait of Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States.
Dr. Spitzer Receiving Honorary Degree
1978
Dr. Spitzer receiving a honorary degree at Milton College Commencement.
Wedding Picture of Eleanor Holt and Donald DeWitt
September 4, 1926
Outdoor wedding portrait of Eleanor Holt and Donald DeWitt. The ceremony was held at the Island on Archibald Lake.
Hoover visits Coolidge
1925
Herbert Hoover visits President Calvin Coolidge during Coolidge's summer retreat from the heat, crowds, and a White House renovation in Washington, D.C. Caption reads: "Herbert Hoover visits Presid...
Peacepipe Ceremony
June 20, 1931
Nine members of the junior and senior class at the University of Wisconsin are sitting in a semi-circle dressed as Native Americans. They are smoking the pipe of peace on the Mendota lakeshore. A t...
Group of Actors
May 8, 1927
A group of actors posing outdoors together in costume. They are participants in a reenactment of a ceremony in which Nicolas Perrot claimed the territory of the upper Mississippi River for France a...
