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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.
Politicians Shaking Hands
October 9, 1928
George A. Nelson, Milltown, former assemblyman and president of the Wisconsin Union of the American Society of Equity, and John E. Cashman, Denmark, State Senator, shaking hands in front of the Uni...
Politicians Shaking Hands
October 9, 1928
George A. Nelson, Milltown, former assemblyman and president of the Wisconsin Union of the American Society of Equity, and John E. Cashman, Denmark, State Senator, shaking hands in front of the Uni...
Senator Proxmire and Constituents
1970
Senator William Proxmire shakes hands with constituents at the Wisconsin State Fair while eating an ear of corn.
Proxmire Walking Through Wisconsin in Winter
December 22, 1972
Senator William Proxmire walked thousands of miles in Wisconsin to meet constituents. Here he is, in a snowmobile suit, shaking hands with a woman outside the post office in De Soto.
Senator Proxmire with Mail
November 19, 1975
Wisconsin Senator, William Proxmire, sitting at his desk with a large stack of mail.
Senator Proxmire Greets Constituents
1970
Senator William Proxmire shakes hands with a young constituent at the Wisconsin State Fair. For many years Proxmire's appearance was an institution at the fair.
