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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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Drummer Playing Drum Set
January 29, 1937
Man playing drum set in a photographic studio.
Musical Families
March 23, 1954
Group portrait of the Crownhart family gathered at a piano with french horn and violin. Clockwise from the bottom are: Gretchen, 6, seated at piano, Ginger, 11, also seated at piano, Sally, 15, pla...
WIBA Radio Broadcast
April 27, 1946
WIBA radio broadcast showing five young people; one playing the piano, one playing a violin, and three reading scripts.
Granny Cowdin
November 19, 1958
Mary B. Cowdin is in her apartment playing her piano and joined by her son-in-law, Ralf Metz, who is playing a violin, and her grandsons Scott, 12, and Allen, 15, who are each playing horns.
Tony Salerno's Gypsy Melodians
August 23, 1932
Anthony "Tony" Salerno's Gypsy Melodians posing at WIBA studios. Tony is leaning against the piano with his violin. Other Melodians are Otto Heinz, piano; Ben Ehr, sax and clarinet; Earl Barnes, tr...
Schneider Family with Musical Instruments
March 24, 1944
Melvin and Naomi Schneider and their five children with musical instruments. Photograph was taken for the Wisconsin School of Music.
