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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.
Sleep Over Party
February 12, 1956
Young women talk about a dance and their dates while lounging on pushed-together twin beds in their pajamas.
Fudge Party
1890
College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
Polka Party
1957
A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background.
Paul Bunyan Drum
Man in a long coat and hat standing with the large Paul Bunyan drum, which is mounted on wheels.
Four Men Playing Conga Drums
April 25, 1970
A crowd of four African American men play conga drums at the Sound Storm music festival for a gathering audience.
