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| More than 2,000 feature articles totaling more than 30,000 pages are online. |
| Explore our physical and digital collections of local and county histories for Wisconsin, the U.S. and Canada. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| German bisque doll with her trunk of clothes and accessories, c. 1908. (Museum object #1966.408.1) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Bemis Riddell chaise lounge custom made for the company owner, Albert Bemis, c. 1925 (reupholstered, c. 1940). (Museum Object #1984.319.1A-B) |
| Learn how to request microfilm records from the Genealogical Society of Utah. |
| Learn tips for using our collections of over 40,000 published family histories for geneaology research. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Garden tractor manufactured by the Gilson Bolens Manufacturing Co., Port Washington, Wisconsin, 1928-1939. (Museum object #2001.1.1) |
| Rural Wisconsin |
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| View the landscapes of rural Wisconsin through the eyes of photographer Paul Vanderbilt. |
| Learn tips for using death records for family history research. |
| Exquisite examples of significant maps related to New France and French Great Lakes exploration, early maps of Florida and Mexico, later maps of Wisconsin. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Duncan Butterfly yo-yo manufactured by the Flambeau Corporation, Baraboo, Wisconsin, 1988-1995. (Museum object #2001.83.13) |
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| Strapless bra worn by Clara Kuester of Clintonville, Wisconsin and made by Jantzen, Inc. in the early 1950s. (Museum object #2000.74.28) |
| Learn how to access and explore the McCormick-International Harvester Collection. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Six-foot Evergleam Christmas tree with 94 branches made by the Aluminum Specialty Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, c. 1966. (Museum object #2005.174.1.1) |
| Learn how to use our newspapers, obituaries and biographical articles for genealogy research. |
| Learn tips for using cemetery records for family history research. |
| The richest resource about Sen. William Proxmire's life and times. Unpublished papers fill over 200 boxes, more than 7,500 pages are available online. |
| Photographs by Richard Quinney |
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| Discover the photographs of Richard Quinney from his book "Things Once Seen," containing more than 40 years of photos documenting his life. |
| Digitally Reproduced Maps of Wisconsin and American History |
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| Features hundreds of digitally reproduced maps from rare books, manuscripts, magazines and journals covering all aspects of Wisconsin and American History. |
| Explore our physical and digital collections of more than 25,000 maps and atlases, which focus on Wisconsin, the Midwest, the U.S. and Canada. |
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