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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.
Curtiss Pusher About to Take Off
1912
To the accompaniment of a cheering crowd, a pilot in a Curtiss pusher prepares to take off.
Curtiss Hydroplane in San Diego Bay
1912
An unsuccessful test of Glenn Curtiss' hydroplane in San Diego Bay. The pilot about to be rescued is thought to be Milwaukee's John Kaminski.
Kaminski as Romantic Hero
May 1913
John Kaminski, his Curtiss pusher, and a young admirer.
Kaminski at the State Fairgrounds
1912
John Kaminski (who can barely be seen here in his Lincoln Beachey checkered cap), his mechanic, and onlookers attempting to ready his Curtiss pusher for flight.
Wright Brothers' Hydroplane
1912
A hydroplane built by the Wright Brothers being tested by the U.S. Navy on San Diego Bay.
