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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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Al. Ringling Theatre
circa 1930 -- 1939
Exterior of the Al. Ringling Theater. Caption reads: "Al Ringling Theatre, Baraboo, Wis."
Al. Ringling Theater
1950
View across street of the Al. Ringling Theater with a Studebaker pickup truck in the foreground. There is a hardware store on the right.
Al. Ringling Theatre
1946
View of the Al. Ringling Theatre from across 4th Street. Neighboring businesses include Pointon Appliance, and an antique shop. Several cars are parked along the street. The marquee advertises Nati...
Elevated View down State Street
Elevated view down State Street. The Orpheum Theatre sign is visible, and in the distance is Lake Mendota.
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.
