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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Ringling Brothers Circus Winter Quarters
1915
View of the Ringling Brothers Circus winter quarters, including the print shop and the wardrobe building.
Ringling Brothers Circus Winter Quarters
1930
Barn used by the Ringling Brothers to store circus equipment during the winter.
Ringling Brothers Circus Winter Quarters
1930
The Ringling Brothers circus stored equipment in these buildings during the winter. Two cars are parked outside an auto repair and moving store.
Water Street
1915
View of Water Street, the winter home of the Ringling Brothers Circus. The whole street was circus property.
Ringling Bros. Circus Winter Quarters
1918
View of the Ringling Brothers Circus winter quarters from across the Baraboo River, looking due north. The brick building, center, was one of the two "Cat Barns" maintained by the Circus.
Wisconsin House
1900
Front view of the Wisconsin House. The brick portion was erected in about 1850. The entire building was razed by 1915, before the Ringling Theatre was built.
