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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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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.
Raquel Torres with DeSoto Automobile
August 12, 1932
Raquel Torres, actress, RKO star, is standing next to a DeSoto automobile.
DeSoto DeLuxe Automobile
October 1, 1953
Side view of a DeSoto DeLuxe automobile posed by the lake, taken for Schappe Motors by the Kulzick Advertising Agency.
United Motor Service/Automotive Electric Sales Co.
February 28, 1933
United Motors Service and Delco Batteries/Automotive Electric Sales Co. building, 754 E. Washington Avenue.
Motor Sales, Inc.
August 23, 1934
Motor Sales Inc., 1501 Monroe Street, Chevrolet sales and service, with three vehicles parked in front.
Waters Motors Inc.
October 12, 1934
Waters Motors, Inc., 802 East Washington Avenue at the corner of North Livingston, taken from across the street.
Atkins Used Car Exchange
July 19, 1935
Atkins Used Car Exchange in a Trachte building, 823 E Mifflin Street, with car dealers standing along side several used cars on display.
