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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.
Gisholt Lathe
March 13, 1952
A masked copy of a lathe manufactured by the Gisholt Machine Company.
Public Health Nursing Week
April 16, 1947
Public Health Nursing Week. Miss Agnes Moroney of the third district unit of Wisconsin State Organization of Public Health Nursing and supervising nurse at the Gisholt Machine Co., discusses the co...
Woman Working at Gisholt Plant
1944
A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue.
Stan Prideaux
February 23, 1954
Indoor portrait of Stanley Prideaux, president of the Dane County CIO Council and president of Local 1404 United Steel Workers at Gisholt, the second largest local union in Madison with membership ...
John R. Wrage
September 1, 1954
Portrait of John R. Wrage, general campaign manager of the 1954 United Givers Campaign, as well as personnel director and assistant vice-president at Gisholt Machine Company. After a career in educ...
Peas and Chicken Fiesta Recipes
February 11, 1954
Three men hold booklets and a poster featuring "Peas and Chicken Fiesta" recipes, promoting the use of canned peas.
