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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.
Meat Inspector at Oscar Mayer Company
June 22, 1945
I.R. Bruley, government meat inspector, is shown applying the circular federal inspection stamp to a side of beef at Oscar Mayer Company.
Woman Inspecting Hot Dogs
1944
Female employee inspecting the quality of "Yellow Band" weiners at Oscar Mayer plant, 910 Mayer Avenue.
Can of Oscar Mayer Luncheon Meat
February 13, 1952
Studio photograph of a 12-ounce can of yellow band Oscar Mayer luncheon meat with a drawing of Little Oscar.
Aerial View of Oscar Mayer Meat Packing Plant
1932
Aerial view of Oscar Mayer Meat Packing Plant and the surrounding countryside.
Sausage Making
1944
Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
