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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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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.
Huntington Barber Shop
Three barbers standing proudly next to empty barber chairs at Herman's Hotel.
Barber Shop Interior
Interior view of a barber shop with barber chairs with men seated on the right side and empty chairs for waiting customers on the left.
Union Station Barbershop
Interior view of the Union Station Barber Shop with a number of men seated in chairs with barbers standing behind them. Plants and light fixtures are suspended from the high ceiling.
Belmont Hotel Barber Shop
January 5, 1954
Parakeet Mike posing on one blade of a pair of scissors belonging to barber Roy Brumley, who works at the Belmont Hotel barber shop. Brumley is holding the scissors open and steady for the bird.
The Royal Poinciana Hotel, Cocoanut Grove
1893
A view of an outdoor seating area at Royal Poinciana Hotel. Numerous tables are arranged around the perimeter of a courtyard, each set with a tablecloth, plates, and silverware. Palm trees stand be...