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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.
Milwaukee Zoo Grounds
1964
Aerial view of the Milwaukee County Zoo grounds nearing its completion.
Rhesus Monkeys Move to Summer Home
May 15, 1954
Zookeepers releasing rhesus monkeys to the island that serves as their summer home at the Washington park zoo (later replaced by the Milwaukee County Zoo).
Speidel and Milwaukee County Zoo Model
February 20, 1954
Zoo director George Speidel and members of the Milwaukee County Zoological society talking over plans for the new zoo while looking at a tentative model for the zoo.
Water Tower Park
Water Tower Park with bare trees in the background. Snow covers the ground.
Samson Passes Away
November 28, 1981
Veterinarians examining Samson, the Milwaukee Zoo's star 32-year-old gorilla, after attempting to revive him after he had collapsed while feeding in the zoo's exhibit. An autopsy later showed that ...
Car Buried in Fresh Snow
1940
Winter scene with a car buried in fresh snow while parked outside a building.
