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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.
Attribution
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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Quiet Moment
May 14, 1987
A couple holds hands and reads together while sitting on a bench.
School Crossing Guard
September 10, 1987
A traffic crossing guard reading while she is waiting for a Grafton elementary school to dismiss its students for the day.
Child with Book
September 30, 1988
Young girl holding a book about child care written by Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D. She is holding the book upside down.
Kroening Engineering factory
Exterior view of the Kroening Engineering factory. Cars are parked along the street outside the building.
Pedestrians near the Wisconsin National Bank
Several pedestrians walking near the Wisconsin National Bank building.