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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.
Melvina Capron and her Radio
August 2, 1933
Melvina (Mrs. Samuel) Capron, 222 N. Bassett Street, listening to a radio and reenacting the night in 1923 when she heard that President Warren G. Harding had died.
Eye Exam
November 6, 1933
Dr. John E. Hughes, optometrist, tests a patient's vision in his office at 112 E. Main Street, using an eyeglass lens machine.
Dane County Court House "Telephone Girls"
November 2, 1933
Dane County Court House "telephone girls" at the new switchboard. Sitting at the switchboard is Madge Albright, and in the rear is Bernadine Plachy and Mary Davis.
Curtis Thornton, Madison Marble Champion
May 20, 1933
Portrait of Curtis Thornton, Madison's 1933 marble champion.
Service Shop
September 15, 1933
The interior of the Service Shop, second-hand store at 113 E. Doty Street, with customers looking through the merchandise.
Patrolman Peterson
June 8, 1930
Patrolman Peterson in uniform, sitting at a telephone table.
