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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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Bathers at the Willows Beach
June 18, 1931
View from shoreline looking down towards bathers at the Willows Beach, standing on a pier and swimming in the lake.
Bathing Beauties
June 10, 1932
Fanchon & Marco girls on pier. (Twelve bathing beauties in bathing suits on Willows pier.)
University Student Bathers
July 29, 1935
Group of men and women modeling bathing suits that have been approved by the police chief on the Alpha Chi Omega pier on Lake Mendota.
Manchester's Beach Apparel Display Window
June 9, 1931
Manchester's beach apparel display window. 2-6 E. Mifflin Street.
Manchester's Beach Apparel Display Window
June 9, 1931
Manchester's beach apparel display window. 2-6 E Mifflin Street.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Crew Team
May 26, 1931
University of Wisconsin-Madison crew team holding their long oars, with coxswain on a pier on Lake Mendota.