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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.
Vote Recording Machine
1919
Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Robot and Baby
circa 1960-1969
An infant being pushed in a baby flyer (baby carriage) by a robot in Leeds, England.
Milk Dispenser
1955
Mr. Robot, a coin operated milk vending machine promoted by the Wisconsin Dairy Caravan, dispenses milk into a paper cup.
Man with Wings
March 23, 1905
An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird wing-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation.
