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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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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.
Hammering Nails
1940
A boy is sitting on the ground and getting ready to hammer nails through two boards.
Playing in a Sandbox
Several children playing in a sandbox, which has a tree growing from its center. In the background and out of focus, two women are standing near what could be an open shed. A building is behind the...
Boy Riding a Tricycle
1943
A boy wearing overalls is riding a tricycle outdoors. A caption identifies him as John Peters.
Play Gunfight
Seven children, some wearing hats and holding toy guns, playing outdoors at a gunfight. One child is hiding behind a tree stump, another child is hiding behind a felled branch, and one child is pla...
Calisthenics
circa 1938
A child is posing, perhaps in mid push-up, in a front yard. A caption identifies the child as Rudy Vertiska.
