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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.
Radio Installed at Henry Vilas Zoo
July 1, 1932
Radio installed at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) for the granddaughters of the zoo director, Fred Winkelmann, and Tuck, the chimpanzee.
Mr. Schleck Talking on Radio
October 1, 1931
Emerson school principal Leo P. Schleck, director of radio education for the city, talking on the radio at Emerson School.
Margaret Lewis and Dickie
November 17, 1937
Portrait of Margaret (Mrs. Frank) Lewis sitting in a chair and Richard "Dickie" Lewis, a 3-year-old, standing beside the chair with floor model radio in the background. Taken in the living room of...
RCA Victor Radio Display
March 10, 1932
Elegant RCA Victor Radio display window in the Taylor Electric Company store, located at 201 E. Washington Avenue.
WIBA Radio Audition Contestants
September 9, 1932
Crowd of audition contestants at WIBA radio station studio.
Radio Transmitter and Walter T. Butler
October 29, 1930
Walter T. Butler stands beside a radio transmitter in his store, Butler Radio Service, 606 University Avenue.
