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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.
E.S. Purdy's Drugstore
Interior view of the E.S. Purdy Drugstore, including four employees.
Sumner's Drugstore
1910
Mr. Sumner stands behind his drugstore's well-stocked candy counters.
Charles F. Tompkins Drugstore
1919
Panoramic view showcasing impressive candy displays and a soda fountain in Tompkin's Drugstore on 63rd street.
Sumner's Drugstore
1905
Interior view of Sumner's Drugstore, which was established in 1855. From left to right are George "Jud" Stone, Edwin Sumner, and Bert B. Collyer.
