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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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Accessing Collections
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.
Oscar Mayer Factory Pipes
June 24, 1954
Three men examine pipes inside the Oscar Mayer plant.
Men Boarding Airplane
September 27, 1954
A group of men pose in front of Capital Airlines airplane at Madison Municipal Airport - Truax Field.
Black Eagle Oil Company
October 17, 1950
Exterior view of the Black Eagle Oil Company, 1039 East Washington Avenue.
Oil Progress Week Proclamation Signing
October 12, 1951
Madison mayor George Forster signs the proclamation to observe Oil Progress Week, while Arnold Wake (center), the general chairman for the observance, and Walter Wildeman, publicity chairman, look on.
Pure Oil Company Uniform
November 1953
Portrait of a man wearing a Pure Oil uniform.
Grady Fuel Company Trucks
September 15, 1949
Grady Fuel Company, 218 Corry Street, displays its Mobilheat truck for delivery of oil for home heating.
