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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.
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Livestock Judging at the Wisconsin State Fair
1960
An audience watches and judges stand by as cattle are lined up to be judged in a pavilion at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Hog showing at the Wisconsin State Fair
A crowd watches as boys try to steer their pigs with canes during judging in a pen at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Country Boy and City Boy
The country meets the city as a "Milwaukee Journal" newsboy admires the calf entered in the animal judging competition by a young boy from the country.
Kids at the Wisconsin State Fair
August 28, 1934
Louis Schmidt sharing his hamburger with Ruth Eleanor Hughes on children's day at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Strolling Hog
1947
Boys, in background, watching as a pig, in the foreground, is taking a stroll around the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds.
