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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.
Garbage Truck
circa 1940-1949
The Greendale Department of Public Works used this truck to collect trash.
Children and Adults at Wading Pool
circa 1940-1949
A group of children and adults at a wading pool in a park.
Children Boarding School Bus
circa 1940-1949
Group of children boarding school bus.
Ice Carnival Skaters
February 11, 1941
A couple, most likely Gerda Wank with Joe Puccetti, in the middle of an ice skating exhibition. The man is holding the woman almost parallel to the ice while crouching. A crowd of children and adul...
Man Wearing Hat Smoking Cigar
August 15, 1942
A man near a booth wearing a hat with a feather smokes a cigar while setting up for a Civilian Defense Rally. The announcers platform is in the background.
