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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.
Lawn Decoration
1961
Homemade decorative star wheel set curbside. The object consists of an assortment of pottery sherds and other discarded bits set in cement within a circular rim.
View from Slope of New Glarus
May 27, 1961
A view overlooking the edge of the town, taken from an eastern slope, with a farm and cows in the foreground.
Dense Tree Growth
November 11, 1961
View through patch of dense tree growth towards a Wisconsin River riverbank.
Lifting Fog
August 20, 1961
Fog lifts from a cornfield and low hills along Highway 131.
Cornstalks
April 29, 1961
A close-up of five stalks of uncut corn on a dry clay bank.