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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.
Wild Rose Service Station
2008
Herman Hanson built this small rectangular brick station before the spring of 1928. Motorists would have known from the bright red tile roof that this little filling station proudly sold Wadhams ga...
Kewaunee Service Station Detail (Mobil Horse)
2008
A red and winged horse weather vane sits atop the Mobil station.
Madison — Severson's Service Station
2008
Located at 2089 Atwood Avenue, a former service station was successfully transformed into a diner — Monty's Blue Plate Diner.
Burlington Service Station
2008
Filling station built in 1927, at 148 West Chestnut Street, by Jack Hansen.
Stoddard Service Station Detail (Coca-Cola)
2008
Close-up of Coca-Cola sign, hanging above the front door of the now Tully Realty Office.
Heafford Junction Service Station
2008
When Phil Kilinski built this unique Dutch Mill gas station six miles north of Tomahawk in the mid 1940s, he created a whimsical attraction that successfully drew speeding post-World War II vacatio...
