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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.
Frank Lloyd Wright Monitoring Building Site
1937
Frank Lloyd Wright, monitoring the construction and testing of load-bearing pylons for the Johnson Wax Building.
Midway Scene
1936
Midway performer (left) at the Wisconsin State Fair and an audience, primarily boys and men listening to an unseen speaker.
State Fair Crowd
1936
Audience at the Wisconsin State Fair, probably watching the children's pony races. One mother holds her daughter in her arms so that she can see better.
Woodchopping Contest
1936
A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest.
Accordionist at the Fair
1936
A young accordionist plays a solo for the crowd at the Wisconsin State Fair, while another young player watches.
Carnival Scene at the Fair
1936
Midway area of the Wisconsin State Fair, showing a truck advertising peanuts at 5 cents in the center background.
