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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.
Attribution
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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Archivist Jesse Boell
Wisconsin Historical Society archivist Jesse Boell, later the archivist of the University of Wisconsin, seen in his office on the third floor of the Historical Society building. The woman in the p...
Maynard Brichford
1955
Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archives offices of the Wisconsin Historical Soci...
Wisconsin Centennial Mural
1948
Artist William Ashby McCloy working on his Wisconsin Centennial murals in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building.
Library Circulation Desk
1948
Wisconsin Historical Society Library Circulation Desk and staff.
Children's Toy Exhibit
December 1948
Two girls looking at dolls on a table. Caption reads: "Exhibit of children's toys. About Christmas, 1948."
