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Hosted by Doris Platt, then Supervisor of Elementary School Services of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, this 1958–1959 WHA-TV series brought historic images and stories of early Wisconsin life into middle school classrooms. Created for the Wisconsin School of the Air, Pioneer Wisconsin helped young viewers explore the people, places, and daily life of the state’s early settlement era.

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'Pioneer Wisconsin' is one of PBS Wisconsin's — known then as WHA-TV — earliest educational children's television programs of the late 1950s. Originally recorded on 16mm film — part of WHA's 'School of the Air' — it has been preserved, digitized and rendered accessible online thanks to a generous donation from Dr. Henry Anderson.
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