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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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Vel Phillips at Community Brainstorming Conference
May 1998
From the left is Reverend John K. Patterson, Mildred Harpole, Vel Phillips, Frank Cumberbatch, and Moderator Russell Stamper. Russell is moderating the Community Brainstorming Conference.
Vel Phillips for YWCA
May 9, 1992
Vel Phillips speaking at a podium. She is wearing a light blue suit. The sign on the podium reads: "YWCA of Greater Milwaukee."
Vel Phillips at W Brown Street
View looking up towards Vel Phillips standing at a podium. She is wearing a coat and gloves and speaking into a microphone. Snow is falling. There is a traffic light signal above and behind Vel, wi...
Vel Phillips and Milwaukee NAACP
Vel Phillips being carried on the shoulders of Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council members. On the right is Father James Groppi speaking into a microphone on a podium with many microphones. In the backgr...
President Jimmy Carter Speaking
October 6, 1980
President Jimmy Carter standing behind a podium withGaylord Nelson on the left. Another man is behind the podium on the right. A banner hangs in the background.
Vel Phillips and Four People
October 1998
Group portrait, from left: Curtis Harris, Jeannetta Robinson, Donald Sykes, Vel Phillips, and Rose Lue-Hing. Vel Phillips is wearing a red suit coat.
