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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.
Portrait of Cat Sitting Indoors
November 23, 1930
Indoor portrait of a cat sitting on a table in front of a lamp. Taken for Mrs. Bert Wells, 2026 Gregory Street.
Unemployment Committee
August 10, 1931
Interim unemployment committee, with seven men sitting around a table.
Telephone Switchboard Operators
June 25, 1937
Women switchboard operators, wearing headsets with microphones at the Wisconsin Telephone Company, located at 17 S. Fairchild Street. There are rotary directory files on the tables.
Beatrice Lampert
March 13, 1931
Beatrice Lampert, assistant city attorney, sitting at her desk with telephone and typewriter.
School Page Editors
October 14, 1930
Eight children who were "School page" editors for the "Capital Times," and one adult, sitting around a table.
Richard McVicar Eating Ice Cream
July 5, 1934
Richard McVicar is sitting at a table eating ice cream from a stemmed dish.
