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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Children Playing Musical Instruments
November 3, 1937
Six children playing violins, a drum and a piano at the Wisconsin School of Music.
Ray Price Band in Studio
June 1955
Four men playing musical instruments in a studio with a electric sign that says: "On the Air." U.W. student Ray Price led the band, which consisted of stand-up base, drums, piano and saxophone.
Pianos in the WIBA Studio
December 5, 1930
Tuxedo-clad pianists sitting at twin Baldwin grand pianos in a WIBA studio.
Man Playing Kimball Theatre Organ
April 5, 1927
Man playing Kimball organ at the Orpheum Theatre.
Violinist Among the Drums
Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American man posing standing and playing a violin among other musical instruments set up around him.
Percussionist at WIBA
October 3, 1930
A tuxedo-clad percussionist standing at his marimbas, with other instruments including a gong, drum kit, and tympani behind him at the WIBA radio station.
