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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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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.
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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.
Child in a Shopping Cart
January 27, 1956
Child in a shopping cart with a frozen Armour smoked ham.
Lemonade Stand
July 1967
Several young boys selling fruit drinks, penny candy, and snow cones to parched pedestrians. A city bus is in the background.
Men Pulling Carts
1897
Men pushing and pulling two carts, one with a barrel, around a street corner.
Food Drive for Thanksgiving
November 18, 1965
Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army.
Girl Scouts Making Punch
November 14, 1966
African American junior Girl Scouts pouring fruit juice into a punch bowl as they prepare to entertain their parents.
Self-Service Supermarket
1953
A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market.
