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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.
Radio Broadcasting In The Gymnasium
circa 1922
Several men broadcasting via radio from the University of Wisconsin gymnasium during a basketball game.
Telegraph Operator
September 27, 1956
Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years.
Ada Nye At Radio Set
1922
Ada Nye (Nemshoff) listening to a crystal radio set at the home of her aunt and uncle Ben and Ida Tovrog. Her cousin Lou Tovrog built the radio set.
WMAQ Radio Station
1924
Interior of WMAQ Radio Station with Chief Engineer Donald Weller standing.
Governor Schmedeman Holding Radio Microphone
October 30, 1934
Governor Albert Schmedeman at home. He is sitting in a wheelchair and holding a radio microphone.
