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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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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.
"The Old Woman that Lived in a Shoe" House
August 1968
View of "The Old Woman that Lived in a Shoe" house in Pleasure Island Amusement Park.
Tilt-A-Whirl
1968
Four girls are sitting in a tilt-a-whirl amusement ride. In the background people are riding on a Ferris wheel.
Ferris Wheel
1968
People are riding on a Ferris wheel above a crowd of people walking around a fairgrounds.
Test Seining on Kentuck Lake
circa 1950-1959
View across water towards men, women, and children sitting in metal boats on a lake. They are watching five men standing waist deep in the lake holding up a seine net filled with fish.
Free Camel Rides
1967
Men wearing red fez hats and khaki shirts and pants (the Zor Camel Patrol) are helping a boy get on a camel for a ride around Vilas Park.
