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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.
Tall-tale Postcard: Grapes
1913
Photomontage of a stack of giant grapes resting on a flatbed cart. The side of the cart bears the inscription, "Wells Fargo Company Express." Red text at the top reads, "How we do things at Rockf...
Tall-tale Postcard: If My Pole Had Not Broken
1910
Photomontage of a fisherman attempting to reel in a giant fish from a river. Beside him sits a few beer bottles and a bag.
Tall-tale Postcard: Grown Near Ruby, Wisconsin
Photomontage of two giant green apples resting on top of a flatbed railroad car. Caption reads: "Grown near Ruby, Wis." Marking on the side of the railroad car reads: "P & G Co. 462," a shortened ...
Tall-tale Postcard: Giant Lettuce/Cabbage
Photomontage of two giant heads of lettuce/cabbage resting on a flatbed railroad car. The side of the car is imprinted with, "L.S. & M.S. 26 D23," showing that it belongs to the Lake Shore and Mic...
Tall-tale Postcard: Potato-The Kind We Raise in Maine
1943
Man standing with arms outstretched atop a giant potato, resting on a red flatbed train car. The train car says "B & A 321" on the side in white letters, representing the Bangor and Aroostook Rail...
Tall-tale Postcard: Who Cares for an Auto
1916
Three men ride a dairy cow on a dirt road, while a fourth pulls at the cow's tail. Of the three men, one is holding a tennis racket, one is holding a golf bag, and one has a camera in his lap. Text...
