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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.
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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.
Roller Skating Rink in Madison
July 20, 1944
Boys and girls roller skating on the Olbrich playground tennis courts on a summer evening. Music is furnished by a jukebox.
Children Playing a Game of Washers at Olbrich Park Playground
July 10, 1950
Three boys playing a game of "washers" at the Olbrich park playground, one of the thirty parks included in the summer playground program sponsored by the Board of Education Recreation Division. Pic...
Playground Scene
July 10, 1948
Playing in the sandbox at Olbrich Park are Mary Lou Whitney, Ann Spilde, Patsy White, year-old Noreen Kay Morehouse and some playmates.
Speed Skaters
January 25, 1959
Outdoor group portrait of 23 children and teen city speed skating champions for 1959.
Cantwell Children
June 10, 1944
Outdoor group portrait of the four Cantwell children of 2801 Monroe Street, on a slide at Edgewood School. From top: Michael, Jeffrey, Connie, and Roger.
Champion Skaters
January 22, 1961
Group portrait of 23 young ice skaters who all won championships in the 1961 city speed skating meet at Vilas Park.
