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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.
Franz Haas at his Standard Gas Station
November 11, 1952
Franz Haas, sheriff elect, washing the windshield of a car at his Standard Gas Station, 318 South Park Street.
Catholic Junior League Car Wash
September 1, 1956
Rae Carol Rocca, left, and Rita Freibutger washing and polishing a car at the Franz Haas Standard Station at 318 South Park Street during the Catholic Junior League all-girl car wash at Madison ser...
Walt Kelly on Book Tour
September 26, 1952
Walt Kelly appears at West High School during his book tour promoting his book, "I Go Pogo."
Walt Kelly & Pogo on Book Tour
September 26, 1952
Walt Kelly arriving in Madison at the Chicago & North Western depot, is met by a person dressed as Pogo, one of his cartoon characters.
Black Eagle Service Station
June 26, 1946
A woman pumping gas at the H.W. Risberg & Sons Black Eagle Service Station, 1200 East Washington Avenue.
Walt Kelly & Pogo on Book Tour
September 26, 1952
Walt Kelly, famous cartoonist, shaking hands with a person dressed as Pogo, one of his cartoon characters.
