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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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Sid Sitting Near Telephone Pole
View from road of Sid sitting in the snow next to the base of a power pole while warming his hands by a small heater, which appears to be plugged into the power pole. In the background are fields a...
Fisherman Posing Outdoors on Picnic Bench
A fisherman is posing on a picnic bench with his fishing rod in his hand and wearing fishing boots.
Capturing the Hodag
A staged scene depicting men poised with weapons pointed at a hodag, a mythical beast, who has attacked a child.
Woman Holding Fish
Alma Reinhardt Taylor, the photographer's wife, holding a large-mouth bass.
Practical Joke
1950
Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench.
Man Crawling on Floor
An unknown man with his eyes closed is crawling on a cloth on the floor of a room. He is holding a stick in his right hand, and his left foot is caught on a stool in the background.
