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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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Deputy Attorney General Nathan Heffernan and State Treasurer Dena Smith
April 19, 1961
State Deputy Attorney General Nathan Heffernan handing State Treasurer Dena Smith a check for $750,000. The check represents money owed the state from the Federal Swamp Grant Act of 1850 for over 1...
Veterans Hospital
May 11, 1961
Wisconsin legislators visit the Veterans Hospital in Madison.
Social Security Director Sydney Miller
June 29, 1961
Sydney Miller, Social Security director for Dane County, sitting behind a desk.
Cat in Assembly Chambers
August 2, 1961
Two Wisconsin legislators hold a cat found in the Assembly chambers.
Roundy Coughlin
September 8, 1961
A portrait of "Roundy" Joseph Couglin, a columnist for Wisconsin State Journal.
Blasting Contractor
March 23, 1961
John (Cy) Ong, owner and operator of a blasting contracting service, posing with a push-button detonator ready to set off a dynamite blast.
