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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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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.
"Miss Wisconsin"
June 5, 1958
Miss Carmen Shields, 23, Milwaukee entry in the 1958 “Miss Wisconsin” contest, crowned at Pabst Blue Ribbon hall.
Monona Grove Memorial Day Festival Queen
May 26, 1961
Quarter-length portrait of Monona Grove Memorial Day Festival queen Jane Weitekamp.
Badger Beauty Contest
1905
Badger Beauty contest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Helen Fitzgerald is shown in back against the wall 6th from the left. She was a member of Tri Delta Sorority.
Queen of Alverno College
February 23, 1958
Carolyn Baier, 20, queen of the Alverno College club fair.
Alice in Dairyland Contestants
May 1952
A group of women, identified as the "Southgate Finalists," was photographed during a contest for the opportunity to go on to compete for the 1952 Alice in Dairyland title.
Alice in Dairyland Contestants
1951
Marjean Czerwinski of Milwaukee, the 1951 Alice in Dairyland, posing with the other Alice contestants from that year wearing formal dresses. Marjean is 7th from the left.
