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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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt with Crowd
1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt sits on the back of an automobile in the midst of a large crowd of people.
Windy Street Scene
A street scene with pedestrians and police officer on a windy day in downtown Milwaukee.
Motorcycle Racetrack
Motorcyclists race, probably at the Wisconsin State Fair Grounds.
Police Motorcycles Outside the Republican Presidential Debate
November 10, 2015
Two police motorcycles parked across the street from the Milwaukee Theater, which is hosting the Republican presidential debate.
Milwaukee Commercial School
April 1, 1915
Northwest corner of 3rd and Wells Street, facing the Milwaukee Commercial School. A police officer directs traffic in the foreground, with pedestrians on the sidewalk in background.
Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen McCabe
August 30, 1954
Mary Ellen McCabe, 1954 Alice in Dairyland, enters State Fair Park in her official convertible, escorted by police officers on Harley-Davidson motorcycles during the annual Wisconsin State Fair.
