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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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Family Playing Croquet
1870
A family standing in a yard playing croquet, with a frame house and farm buildings behind them. An interesting rustic bench is on the right.
Family Playing Croquet
1869
A family playing croquet in the yard of a frame house with three chimneys. A baby carriage is near the house on the left, and exterior cellar doors are on the right.
Stordock Family Plays Croquet
1874
Stordock family within fenced yard playing croquet with frame house behind. There is a woodpile and small frame structure behind the house.
Family in Field near Farmstead
1878
Family standing and on horseback in field with farmstead in background.
Family Playing Croquet near Barn
circa 1870-1879
Group posed playing croquet in front of a bank barn with a handsome cupola and lightning rods. Horse-drawn wagons are in front of the barn.
Ole Bull Family Playing Croquet
1874
Ole Bull Residence at 130 East Gilman Street. Family on lawn playing croquet with house in background. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It became the executive mansion for the governo...
