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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.
Friendly Persuasion
August 6, 1987
Two women coax a stubborn calf at the State Fair.
Polishing the Chrome
September 14, 1987
A man polishes his 12-cylinder Lincoln Coupe as part of a classic car show at Rank & Son Buick-GMC Truck.
Hog showing at the Wisconsin State Fair
A crowd watches as boys try to steer their pigs with canes during judging in a pen at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Tubing Down Mule Hill
January 2, 1988
Bundled-up boys ride their tubes down an icy slope in Mee-Kwon Park.
Strolling Hog
1947
Boys, in background, watching as a pig, in the foreground, is taking a stroll around the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds.
Sheep at the Wisconsin State Fair
Men preparing their sheep for judging at the Wisconsin State Fair.
