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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 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.
Downer College Graduation
1908
Outdoor group portrait of women graduating from Downer College standing in front of a vine covered wall. The woman are wearing long white dresses with high lace collars, and are each holding a dipl...
Sally and Jack's Wedding
June 28, 1947
The receiving line at Sally Friend and Jack's wedding at Pine Lake.
Winter Entrepreneur
1973
View down hill towards a boy kicking at a door to see if they want their walk shoveled after a snowfall.
Deep Snow on Lakeland Avenue
A car on Lakeland Avenue is buried in snow during a blizzard. A bumper sticker on the car reads: "Nature Bats Last." In the background a person is shoveling a sidewalk.
Shoveling Snow
1959
Winter scene with Shirley Widmer, the photographer's wife, shoveling snow after a big snowstorm.
Shoveling Snow
1959
Winter scene of Shirley Widmer, the photographer's wife, digging out a snow-covered sidewalk. Caption: "Shirley Widmer digs out after a big snowstorm."
