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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.
Toy Trucks and Tractors
December 16, 1954
Studio photograph of a "Slik-Toy Dairy" toy truck against a white background.
Madison Soap Box Derby
June 29, 1949
Madison Soap Box Derby participant Pierre Slightam, age 14, with Robert J. Connor, Jr., assistant manager of C.C. Collins and Son, Inc., 2308 University Avenue, sponsor of Pierre.
Sears Toy Department
November 25, 1954
Elevated view of the toy department at the new Sears store, located at 1101 East Washington Avenue. A motor scooter is in the foreground.
Collins Table
March 8, 1954
Modern table with metal legs. Designed/built by Collins(?).
Modern Table
March 8, 1954
A man, possibly Mr. Collins, attaches metal legs to a wooden table top.
Beth El Sisterhood Bazaar
November 2, 1954
Sari Elkind, Jonthan Wolman, Lory Rosen show toys and model clothes that were among the items to be sold at the Beth El Sisterhood Bazaar.
