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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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Roy Rogers at the Fair
1958
Motion picture and television "cowboy" stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans arrive in Milwaukee for their appearance at the Wisconsin State Fair. Although undated, the photograph probably documents the...
WMVS-TV Mobile Unit Filming Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
1961
The operators of the mobile unit of WMVS-TV, a community station out of Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools, film an interview with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans during the Wisconsin State Fair.
National Championship Motorcycle Races
August 26, 1950
Poster advertising the National Championship Motorcycle Races at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Hopalong Cassidy and Twins
Actor William Boyd, better known as Hopalong Cassidy, with two pairs of twins entered in the twin competition at the Wisconsin State Fair. None of the children appear impressed by meeting the famou...
Wisconsin State Fair Poster
1900
Color chromolithograph poster advertising the Wisconsin State Fair.
Old Timers Day at the Fair
1938
The Old Timers Club of Milwaukee waves for a motion picture being made at the Wisconsin State Fair.
