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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.
Scotch Curlers
January 24, 1963
Woman from a visiting curling team from Scotland crouching over the house during a curling match while another woman watches.
Eddie Mathews, Jr. at the Plate
September 7, 1958
Three-year-old Edwin Lee Mathews, Jr., dressed in a "Milwaukee Braves" uniform, takes a swing at a baseball. He is the son of Braves' Hall of Fame third baseman Eddie Mathews.
Peeling Carrots
May 26, 1958
A boy in a Boy Scouts uniform for Milwaukee County Council 406 is sitting on a camp stool and peeling carrots. Caption reads: "Peeling carrots was unexciting business for Hebert Renfro, 16, of 2629...
Gumball Machine
December 11, 1965
Boy inserting coin into a gumball vending machine in anticipation of a sweet treat.
Clearing a Path with a Snowblower
January 12, 1963
Winter scene with teenage boy snow blowing the driveway of a house. His letter jacket has "64" on the sleeve. He is also wearing a stocking cap with pom-pom, gloves and glasses. In the background i...
Beekeepers Standing in Apiary
A man and a boy pose standing in apiary surrounded by beehives. The man is holding a smoker.
