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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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Alfalfa for the Wisconsin State Fair
1951
Irving Gerhardt, instructor of Vocational Agriculture, and Duane Lehr, Future Farmers of America member and agriculture student from Madison East High School put together a sheaf of alfalfa for an ...
Sheep at the Wisconsin State Fair
Men preparing their sheep for judging at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Works Projects Administration at the Wisconsin State Fair
1938
Fair-goers stand in line to enter the W.P.A. Exhibit tent at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Textile Exhibit at the Fair
July 27, 1953
A visitor to the Wisconsin State Fair is so curious about one entry in a display of rugs and textiles that she reaches through a protective barrier in order to more closely examine it.
Prize-winning Gladiolas
1955
A smiling girl poses with stalks of gladiolas that won the champion ribbon for "Gladiolus Spike," and the first premium ribbon for "Horticulture Plants and Flowers" at the Wisconsin State Fair.
