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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.
Directing Traffic
1939
A Chicago police officer holds up his hand to signal pedestrians that they should not enter the crosswalk.
Frank Scherschel Strobe Photograph
circa 1930-1939
Strobe photograph of Frank Scherschel walking on grass. There are thirteen different exposures showing Scherschel's movements across the frame.
Milwaukee Farmers Market
1941
Milwaukee Farmer's Market during the late 1930s. A customer carries produce purchased at the market.
Les Bentley
circa 1930-1939
Portrait of artist, Lester Bentley, wearing an apron and sitting in his studio holding a brush, a pipe and a painters palette.
High Security
circa 1930-1939
Multiple locks secure a massive ancient-looking door.
Accordionist at the Fair
1936
A young accordionist plays a solo for the crowd at the Wisconsin State Fair, while another young player watches.
