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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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Black Eagle Service Station
June 26, 1946
A woman pumping gas at the H.W. Risberg & Sons Black Eagle Service Station, 1200 East Washington Avenue.
Black Eagle Service Station Attendant and Customer
June 26, 1946
A gas station attendant talks to a customer in a car at the H.W. Risberg & Sons Black Eagle Service Station, 1200 East Washington Avenue.
Shell Gas Station
December 27, 1948
Night view of Shell Gas Station at 1200 East Washington Avenue, operated by Harold W. Risberg. There is a holiday display inside the station behind plate glass windows, including a cardboard easel-...
Walt Kelly on Book Tour
September 26, 1952
Cartoonist Walt Kelly draws small sketches of Pogo and signs autographs for two fans.
Franz Haas at his Standard Gas Station
November 11, 1952
Franz Haas, sheriff elect, working under the hood of a car at his Standard Gas Station, 318 South Park Street.
Packard Maintenance
June 29, 1946
An African American mechanic works on a car up on the rack for servicing at the gas station Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue.
