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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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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.
Wisconsin vs. Syracuse Boxing Match
February 18, 1956
Action photo of University of Wisconsin boxer Orville Pitts (right) vs. Syracuse boxer Nick Georgiade at the Field House.
University of Wisconsin Boxing Tournament of Contenders
January 12, 1956
Dick Davis of Appleton (left) throws a long right at champion Frank Calarco of Milwaukee during their bout during the boxing Tournament of Contenders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field Ho...
All UW Boxing Tournament
February 13, 1953
Everett Chambers, a freshman from Tomah, receives the "Fightin'est Figher" award at the 34th annual All-University boxing tournament.
NCAA Boxing Tournament
April 12, 1956
Action photo of Truman Sturdevant of Wisconsin and Jerome Dooling of Detroit in the boxing ring during NCAA tournament heavyweight quarter-finals on Thursday afternoon.
Wisconsin-Houston Boxing Match
March 3, 1956
University of Wisconsin boxer Dick Bartman, left, competes against Houston's Alton Allen. Their match ended in a tie.
University of Wisconsin vs. Washington State Boxing Tournament
February 25, 1956
Jim Schneider, the University of Wisconsin's 147-pound boxer, engages in a match with Joe Zeeben of Washington State.
