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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 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.
Toledo Scale
April 12, 1928
Man taking chemical CaCO4 out of a jar to measure it on Toledo Scale in Ricketts laboratory at Agriculture Chemistry Building, University of Wisconsin.
Chemistry Laboratory
April 12, 1928
A man is measuring chemicals on an old scale in Ricketts laboratory at the Agriculture Chemistry Building, on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Old Scale
April 12, 1928
View of a man taking Sodium Chloride (NaCl) out of a jar to measure it on an old scale on a table. The man is working in the Ricketts laboratory at the Agriculture Chemistry Building at the Univers...
Toledo Scale
May 22, 1928
Toledo scale in use at the University of Wisconsin Genetics barn.
Toledo Scale
July 30, 1929
A man reads a Toledo scale at the University of Wisconsin engineering building.
Toledo Scale
May 20, 1928
Man weighing bucket on Toledo bench scale at Federation Creamery.
