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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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Fan Dancer
September 28, 1933
Rosita Carmen, burlesque dancer, performing with feather fans on the stage of the Orpheum Theatre.
Orchestra on Stage
December 26, 1930
Elevated view of the combined RKO and Ross-Hobbs Century Serenaders orchestras with director performing at the RKO Orpheum theater.
Lifebuoy Soap Dancers, Wheeler School of Dance
May 25, 1933
Group of seven dancers posing around an oversize cake of Lifebuoy Health Soap on a stage. The orchestra pit is in the foreground. Billie Usher, Marianne Hebblethwaite, Jacqualine Lorig, Ruth Holt, ...
Kimball Theater Organ
April 5, 1927
Kimball theater organ at Orpheum Theater, with "Organ — New Orpheum Theatre, Madison, Wis." written on the negative.
East High School Girls Modern Dance
April 18, 1935
Seven girls performing a modern dance on stage.
Orpheum Theatre Seating
March 6, 1942
Interior rear view of the seating of the Orpheum Theatre, at the back of the main floor looking towards the stage.
