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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.
A Mother's Funeral Coffin
Open coffin, decorated with flowers, and a wreath that reads, "Our Mother" in a funeral salon.
Mortgage Burning Ceremony
December 18, 1955
Two men and two women are standing around a plate, over which one man is holding a singed document while another man is holding a match. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. Dec. 18, 1955. Mt. Zion Baptis...
Willie Mae Small
1977
Willie Mae Small, 107 years old, sits in a chair off to the side during an outdoor service (church?).
Holy Redeemer Church Interior
1913
Interior view of the Holy Redeemer Church, also called the "German Catholic" church, decorated for Father Dreis's funeral.
