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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.
Ringling Brothers Circus Wagons
Elevated view of Ringling Brothers circus wagons, horses, and tents, with the Chicago skyline in the background.
Ringling Circus Wagon and Clowns
1910
A Ringling Circus wagon, pulled by a horse, with clowns riding on top, is part of a parade along a city street.
Circus Wagon
1936
A circus wagon, hitched to a truck cab, is parked across the street from three houses in a residential neighborhood.
Circus Tent Construction Workers
August 16, 1984
Young men, workers for the Carson & Barnes Circus, carrying heavy circus tent poles through a field.
Circus Wagon Transport
1963
An International truck transports a circus wagon between Circus World Museum in Baraboo and Milwaukee. The wagon was part of a 25-piece circus parade sponsored by Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company.
The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus and Flooded Road
May 30, 1908
The Great Wallace Shows, horses and wagons, were flooded out by a sudden cloudburst.
