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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.
DeForest State Bank
September 12, 1933
A group of people are gathering in front of the DeForest State Bank, site of a robbery.
First National Bank
April 17, 1931
A male cashier, with bandaged head, was injured in the robbery. He is standing outside of the bank that was robbed.
Doylestown Bank After Robbery
September 11, 1931
Crowd standing on the street and sidewalk in front of the Doylestown Bank after a robbery.
Wrecked Safe
April 30, 1933
Sinaiko Brothers Oil Co. filling station, at 702 Regent Street, showing wrecked safe damaged by thieves in robbery.
Doylestown Bank Robbery, Gunshot Victim
September 11, 1931
Portrait of W.J. Baw, Doylestown Bank robbery gunshot victim, who was shot through the wrist as he attempted, with only a brick as a weapon, to attack one of the bandits.
Elevated View of DeForest
1915
Elevated view of DeForest. Caption reads: "Birdseye View, DeForest, Wis."
