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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 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.
Television Broadcast of Election Returns
November 2, 1948
WENR in Chicago broadcasts the first live national television presidential election returns when Truman upset Dewey.
Boy with Radio Kit
October 2, 1954
Boy with radio kit, experimenting with a two tube radio receiver.
Radiophone
circa 1920-1929
A woman takes down menus and recipes that she hears on her radiophone.
Burlington Route
circa 1950-1959
A sleek passenger train passes through the countryside.
Two Women Motorboating
circa 1950-1959
Two women motorboating and waving to the photographer.
