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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.
Grandstand Entrance
Elevated view of crowd outside the entrance to the Grandstand at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Baton Twirlers Promote Milk
August 30, 1954
Near the Department of Agriculture's Milk House, two baton twirlers in an obvious promotion photograph sit on top of a car and raise their paper cups of milk. For many years, baton twirling contest...
Governor Heil Waves to the Crowd
August 20, 1941
While watching the finish of a horse race at the Wisconsin State Fair, Governor Julius Heil raises his arm to cheer. Seated beside him (left to right) are Lieutenant Governor Walter S. Goodland and...
Fair Midway Crowds
Elevated view of crowds packing the Midway at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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.
Clothing Competition at the State Fair
Clothing judges Helen Pearson from Madison and Mrs. Hugh Cunningham from Milwaukee examine dresses entered in the home sewing competition at the Wisconsin State Fair.
