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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.
Road Crew
October 20, 1948
Construction workers along State Highway 59 putting crack filler into a tar kettle for heating.
Road Construction with Horses
1918
Patrolman leveling the surface of State Highway 33 in the town of Excelsior in Sauk County using a team of horses and a wooden grader. Patrolmen were instructed to begin grading after a rain storm...
Rocky Shoulder on Highway 51
1925
View of a road crew along State Highway 15 at work constructing a trench for a penetration type shoulder near Kaukauna.
Kaukauna Section Patrol
1925
A Kewaunee County road crew poses in front of gravel crushing machinery.
Road Grader Angle
1920
A state highway patrolman at work on a dirt road somewhere in Eau Claire County demonstrates how the grader was adjusted for sloped shoulders. At the time the name patrolman did not refer to a law...
