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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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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.
Orpheum Theatre Projection Booth
February 23, 1954
RCA Artcraft and IPC Simplex Cinemascope projector equipment in projection room with operators, at the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street.
Anamorphic Lens for "Cinemascope" Movies
February 23, 1954
Anamorphic lens, used with "Cinemascope" movies in the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street.
Orpheum Theatre Cinemascope Wide Screen
February 23, 1954
Wide "Cinemascope" screen at the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street.
Orpheum Theatre Lounge & Smoking Room
April 5, 1927
The Lounge & Smoking Room at the Orpheum Theatre, located at 216 State Street.
Orpheum Theatre Projection Booth
April 21, 1927
The projection room in the Orpheum Theatre, with projectors and other equipment ready for movie viewing.
Orpheum Theatre
June 11, 1945
Lobby of the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street, showing a display of coming MGM movies, and a poster of "National Velvet," starring Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, and Elizabeth Taylor.
