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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.
Schurz's Kindergarten Monument
1947
Front view of a monument erected on the site of Mrs. Carl Schurz's first kindergarten in America.
Nicolet Monument
1910
The Nicolet Monument, erected by the Women's Clubs and unveiled in 1906.
The First Kindergarten in America
1928
Exterior view of the school established by Mrs. Carl Schurz, which is often considered the first kindergarten in America.
Kindergarten
1928
View of the building which housed the first kindergarten in Wisconsin, opened by Mrs. Carl Schurz in 1856.
