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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.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Wisconsin Telephone Co. Switchboard
August 3, 1931
Wisconsin Telephone Co. switchboard, front view.
Wisconsin Telephone Co. Switchboard
August 3, 1931
Wisconsin Telephone Co. switchboard, rear view.
Pumping Station Switchboard
August 2, 1931
Switchboard at City of Madison water well no. 4 pumping station, 5 N. Randall Street.
Early Electrical Switchboard
October 19, 1931
Early electrical switchboard, Edison and Company.
Electrical Switchboard
February 24, 1932
New electrical switchboard for the State Office Building.
Oscar Mayer and Co. Telephone Operator
January 19, 1944
A telephone operator wearing a headset sits in front of a switchboard at the Oscar Mayer Co.
