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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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Children Playing with Flying Rings
1915
A group of children, mostly boys wearing caps, playing with flying rings outside at a playground in front of a brick building.
Deserted Playground
circa 1910-1919
A deserted playground with swing sets, slides, and ladders, in front of a group of buildings. There are two young boys near a dwelling in the background.
Street Game
circa 1910-1919
Several boys play a street game in a residential area, two blocks away from the deserted playground.
Loafing on Playground
circa 1910-1919
Boys loafing on the playground in the director's absence. Most of them are sitting on a wall next to a building on the edge of the playground.
Playground at the State Fair
circa 1910-1919
Children playing on the playground at the State Fair. The children form lines to climb up the two tall ladders to slide down a pole. Several children are near the top. There are also 'flying rings'...
"A Primitive Instinct"
circa 1910-1919
Two boys attempting to climb a wall on the facade of a building near a window.