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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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Scene from "Hamlet"
Elevated view of cast and crew filming a scene from the 1949 film "Hamlet." Laurence Olivier and Norman Wooland have a microphone over their heads. A stage for the play scene is on the right. A mov...
Scene from "It Happened Tomorrow"
Elevated view of cast and crew filming a scene from the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." The set recreates apartment rooftops. Studio lights are above the crew, and three people are working a movi...
Theater Scene from "Miranda"
Cast and crew preparing to film a scene on a theater auditorium set for the 1948 film "Miranda." Actors Griffith Jones, Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, John McCallum, and Sonia Holm are sitting in a ...
Laurence Olivier as Hamlet
Actor and director Laurence Olivier filmed while performing the "To be or not to be" soliloquy from the 1949 film "Hamlet." A light is in the upper left corner, and a movie camera is in the right f...
Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson
Actors Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson, and the film crew, waiting to film an outdoor scene from the 1948 film "Miranda." Men are around a movie camera in the center.
Madeline Carroll
Actress Madeline Carroll and an unidentified actor sitting at a table preparing to film a scene for the 1938 film "Blockade." They are next to lights and a movie camera.
