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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.
Fans at Baseball Game
circa 1960
Close-up of fans shouting at a Milwaukee Braves baseball game.
Milwaukee County Stadium, All Star Game
July 12, 1955
Panoramic view of Milwaukee County stadium from center field during the All Star baseball game.
British Women Watching Baseball Game
September 2, 1958
Two young British women, Hilary Birley and Cecily Thompson, watching their first baseball game at a Cubs-Braves double header.
Eddie Mathews Slides into Home
July 7, 1957
Eddie Mathews, third baseman for the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, sliding into home plate. Chicago Cubs catcher Cal Neeman is applying the tag as Braves third base coach, Connie Ryan is looking on.
Lou Perini and John Quinn at a Ball Game
Lou Perini and John Quinn sitting in the stands at a Milwaukee Braves game, presumably at Milwaukee County Stadium.
Warren Spahn
circa 1953
Warren Spahn, famous left-handed pitcher of the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, completes a pitch to the batter.
