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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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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.
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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.
Automobile Race Preparation
September 3, 1953
Old cars line up to race at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds.
Hog showing at the Wisconsin State Fair
A crowd watches as boys try to steer their pigs with canes during judging in a pen at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Harness Racing at the Wisconsin State Fair
1953
Harness racers are shown in action at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, with an audience watching from the grandstand.
Nuns at the Wisconsin State Fair
People saunter along the midway at the Wisconsin State Fair. A group of four nuns appears in the foreground, passing the Hoard's Dairyman booth.
Girl and Horses at the Wisconsin State Fair
1958
A girl sits on a fence and holds the bridle of her horse as its foal stand by.
