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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.
Acrobatic Airplanes
August 1980
Airplanes entered in the 10th World Acrobatics Championships at Wittman Field in Oshkosh. The planes in the foreground are those of the Australian and Canadian teams. Several Pitts Aerobatic planes...
Red Devil Airplane
1910
An exhibition airplane on display inside a tent at Dixon, Illinois, thought to be a "Red Devil," plane designed by Thomas A. Baldwin.
Spirit of 3.2%
Two men stand next to a small airplane emblazoned with "Spirit of 3.2%" and "The Nation's Pioneer Goodwill Beer Ship" on the side. They are in front of a Midwest Airways, Inc. hangar that offers "...
Presidential Campaign Airplane
1964
The seats designated for Senator and Mrs. Goldwater on an airplane, during the 1964 presidential campaign. He and running mate, William Miller went on to lose to Democrats Lyndon Johnson and Huber...
