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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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Anniversary of Swiss Settlement
August 16, 1925
A large crowd of men, women, and children gathers outdoors to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Swiss settlement in New Glarus.
Monument to First Settlers
1920
Monument to the first settlers in this Swiss colony, 1845. View of monument with partial view of Swiss Reform Church in the background.
High School
1925
Exterior across lawn of the three-story New Glarus high school. The school building features a decommissioned Civil War cannon near the entrance.
Swiss Settler Monument
1915
Monument to the first settlers in this Swiss colony, 1845.
