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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 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.
Lion at Vilas Park Zoo
October 30, 1958
View through bars of a lion sleeping in a cage at Vilas Park Zoo.
Asian Dignitaries
Asian dignitaries, including two women, amidst a crowd, perhaps at a railroad station.
Sheridan Road in Chicago
1915
View down Sheridan Road, with automobiles on both sides. The Edgewater Beach Hotel is in the background.
Orpheum Player at Henry Vilas Zoo
September 11, 1930
Orpheum player at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) standing in front of lion cage.
Alma Reinhardt Taylor with Son
Alma Reinhardt Taylor playing on the grass with her son, Frederick or Robert. The child is holding a stuffed animal toy.
Winkie the Elephant at the Vilas Park Zoo Enjoys His Chrismas Tree
December 23, 1958
Winkie the elephant at the Henry Vilas Zoo enjoys the Christmas Tree in the lion cage next to his cage. A father and daughter watch as Winkie reaches for the needles on the tree.
