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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.
Mansion House
circa 1910
Interior of a restaurant at a mansion house. A man at the left leans against a counter, and two women stand behind a shelf filled with candy. Tables and chairs fill the room and signs advertising ...
The Greenery
Interior of The Greenery. The restaurant holds tables and chairs, and the dining room is surrounded by windows.
YWCA Cafeteria
Interior of the YWCA Cafeteria, built in 1918. Kitchen equipment can be seen on counter tops and tables, and chairs stand to the right. On the back wall, a sign lists the menu.
Lunch Counter at the Union Railroad Passenger Station
Women stand behind and near the lunch counter at Union Railroad Passenger Station. Tables and chairs are set up against the wall beside the counter.
Restaurant Dining Room
Interior of a restaurant dining room. Decorative steins are placed on the mantle of a fireplace, and tables and chairs are arranged around the room.
Men Conversing in a Diner
1969
View through window of a diner of several men engaged in conversation at the counter. A neon sign in the window says, in part: "Fountain Service."
