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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.
Story Time
September 26, 1967
Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on.
Elementary School Class
May 1909
Slightly elevated view from front of students and teachers in an early 20th century school classroom. The names of all the students are written on the blackboard.
Children in Sack Race
August 11, 1971
Children wearing large sacks up to their waists and racing each other.
First Graders
June 1, 1989
First graders writing and drawing while lying on the floor.
Classroom Cave People
February 27, 1984
A sixth grade class dresses up as cave people to experience the likeness of living in pre-historic times.
