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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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Wisconsin Crew Paddling Down the Yahara
March 28, 1964
The University of Wisconsin crew is rowing down the Yahara River on a practice run, the four oarsmen stirring the water as they go.
Fire Dispatchers Room
March 9, 1965
Dispatcher Sgt. L.E. Odegaard sitting at a switchboard surrounded by newly installed dispatching equipment. Odegaard is on the second floor of No. 3 station, 1217 Williamson Street. The dispatchers...
Lake Patrol Boats
May 27, 1964
Two lake patrol boats ready to start their summer season patrolling of Lakes Kegonsa and Waubesa. Manning the boats are Sheriff Vernon Leslie, center and left to right, deputies Joseph Lowenberg, L...
Blasting Contractor
March 23, 1961
John (Cy) Ong, owner and operator of a blasting contracting service, posing with a push-button detonator ready to set off a dynamite blast.
Mrs. MacLean
October 7, 1965
Probably a portrait of Mrs. MacLean in her kitchen, taken for the "Wisconsin State Journal" cookbook section published Oct. 17, 1965.
Removal of High-Voltage Towers
April 5, 1961
One of the high-voltage towers that intersected Sherman Avenue between Roth Street and Aberg Avenue that was removed to make way for expansion of the North Gate Shopping Center.
