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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.
Woman Using Sewing Machine
1955
Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background.
Polio Vaccine in Transport
1955
Polio vaccine being unloaded (?) from a Northwest airplane.
Filling Station at Old Newport Resort on Lower Dells
1929
Filling station with attendant standing outside near two pumps. There is a stand with signs advertising Old Gold cigarettes, 5 cent vegetable sandwiches, Prima Special, Hires, and Coca-Cola. A cler...
Gasoline Station
August 18, 1963
A gasoline station decorated with flags and pennants. Billboards are along the back fence.
Bellinger's Grocery Storefront
A man and woman standing in front of Bellinger's Grocery store and gas station.
Saginaw Oil Company Truck
May 10, 1926
An International truck used by the Saginaw Oil Company parked in front of a Texaco filling station.
