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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.
George Smith, Hermit
December 31, 1934
Portrait of George Smith, hermit, rescued from squalid shack in Cottage Grove, and taken to Dane County home in Verona.
Tom Brown, Cartoonist
November 10, 1932
Tom Brown, cartoonist, drawing at his kitchen table beside a large Queen's Best wood burning stove.
Candy Making
October 13, 1934
John Karch stirring a hot pot of candy syrup on a stove, while trays of finished candy are cooling on the table.
Kelvinator Exhibit, Home Show
May 6, 1934
Four Kelvinator refrigerators and a stove on exhibit at the Home Show.
Smith's Flower Shop Window Display
February 20, 1934
Smith's Flower Shop, 121 State Street, floral window display of flowering plants. Right hand window.
Cottages
December 23, 1929
View down snowy road towards a group of cottages at Normandale (now Oakwood Village, 6209 Mineral Point Road) in a grove of trees in the winter.
