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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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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.
Raabe on Boat Ride
Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, on an amusement park boat ride.
Little Oscar and Stove
Meinhardt Raabe dressed as Little Oscar, standing next to a stove.
Electric Cooking with Meinhardt Raabe
Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, standing with two women on a television soundstage kitchen.
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.
Giant Man and Meinhardt Raabe
A giant man, wearing a suit and hat, and Meinhardt Raabe, who is dressed as Little Oscar, are standing together and pulling up their pants legs to compare shoe sizes.
