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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 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.
Circus Poster
Ringling Bros. and Barnun and Bailey combined shows poster, depicting wire walkers and other performers under a circus tent. "The only act of its kind" featuring "The Dancing, Tumbling, Somersaulti...
Elephant pulling Wagon in Parade
Elephant pulling a wagon with a sign for the pig circus in a parade through town.
Ringling Circus Wagon and Clowns
1910
A Ringling Circus wagon, pulled by a horse, with clowns riding on top, is part of a parade along a city street.
Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus Poster
August 1972
Poster advertising for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus, advertised as the World's largest, which took place August 30, 1972 at the Madison Fair Grounds in Madison, Wisconsin. Poster features ...
Elephants Drinking from Wagon Pulled by McCormick-Deering Tractor
August 5, 1927
Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus workers and children are standing near the t...
