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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Governor Heil Waves to the Crowd
August 20, 1941
While watching the finish of a horse race at the Wisconsin State Fair, Governor Julius Heil raises his arm to cheer. Seated beside him (left to right) are Lieutenant Governor Walter S. Goodland and...
Conservation Exhibit
August 1948
Aerial view of the grounds of the Wisconsin Conservation Department exhibit at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition.
Wisconsin State Fair Parking
circa 1940-1949
Elevated view of a parking lot filled with cars at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Wisconsin State Fair Parking
circa 1940-1949
Panorama view of a parking lot filled with cars at the state fair.
Works Projects Administration at the Wisconsin State Fair
1938
Fair-goers stand in line to enter the W.P.A. Exhibit tent at the Wisconsin State Fair.
