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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.
Grandstand at the State Fairgrounds
1909
Grandstand and the racetrack at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds.
Automobile Race at the Fair
1956
Elevated view of an automobile race at the state fairgrounds, with the crowd in the foreground. Cars are parked in the infield.
State Fairgoers
1909
Fairgoers stroll along a dirt path within the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. The dairy barns form a row at the back of the image.
Automobile Race at the State Fairgrounds
1956
Automobiles drive past the grandstand at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds as they prepare for the beginning of the race.
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
1920
Aerial view of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. One of the largest machinery manufacturing plants in America, which produces turbine engines, gas producer engines, public utility power plant, e...
