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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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State Fair Side Show Attractions
State Fair barker announcing side show attractions to a crowd of children, featuring "Midget City, the World's Tiniest Entertainers" and "Baby Thelma, 619 Pounds of Feminine Beauty."
Wisconsin Thematic Panel 690-696
circa 1960-1969
For any master line drawn fine enough or spoken welllet us call all professionals to wear the laureland deck the Halls of Fame
Farmall at the Tri-State Fair in Iowa
August 22, 1929
A crowd of spectators gathers around a Farmall Regular tractor on display at the Tri-State Fair.
Carnival Banners
1914
The exterior of carnival banners with people gathered in front of them. Probably depicting "Gay Paree" at the State Fair.
Wisconsin State Fair
1920
Elevated view of crowds strolling through the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. In the background is a Ferris wheel, and a banner encouraging fair goers to "talk to the folks at home, local and long dis...
Crowds at the Wisconsin State Fair
1900
Elevated view of crowds at the Wisconsin State Fair.
