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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.
Attempting to Fly - Anaglyph
1909
An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation.
Atomic Energy
circa 1960-1969
Students and teacher in classroom demonstrating an experiment with atomic energy.
Vote Recording Machine
1919
Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Man Holding Slipover Bowling Shoe
April 10, 1945
A man, possibly inventor Leo Kay, holding a slipover bowling shoe, which attaches to a regular street shoe.
Man Carrying a Dead Deer
Two hunters in woods, one carrying a dead deer on his back.
