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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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Little Oscar and Wienermobile Driver
Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar and wearing a hat that reads "Yellow Band Wieners," is standing in front of the Wienermmobile and holding one side of the driver's side window open, while s...
Little Oscar and Stove
Meinhardt Raabe dressed as Little Oscar, standing next to a stove.
Giant Holding Meinhardt Raabe
A man described as a giant is holding Meinhardt Raabe with one arm. Meinhardt is dressed as Little Oscar.
Little Oscar at Oscar Mayer Display
Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, is standing behind an Oscar Mayer display counter between two women.
"The Wizard of Oz" Munchkin Coroner
1940
Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as the Coroner from "The Wizard Of Oz," shaking hands outdoors with a man wearing a hat and coat. Behind them is the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, and in front of the men is a ...
Electric Cooking with Meinhardt Raabe
Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, standing with two women on a television soundstage kitchen.
