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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.
Jesse Smith at the Police Desk
October 12, 1931
Jesse Smith is on the job as desk sergeant at the Madison Police Department.
WIBA Office
December 9, 1930
WIBA office, with four men working at desks. There is an Underwood typewriter in the foreground.
Orthopedic Hospital Classroom
September 17, 1931
Students are sitting at desks at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital for Children, University of Wisconsin, 436 North Randall Street.
Mayor Law Sitting at Desk
December 1, 1932
Mayor James R. Law sitting at a desk signing a document in City Hall, 2-4 W. Mifflin Street.
Mautz Paint & Glass Co. Decorator
March 21, 1934
Beatrice Conley, staff director of the Mautz Home Decoration Service, sitting at a desk in her office at 939 East Washington Avenue.
Jones Typewriter Display Window
June 9, 1931
Frank A. Jones typewriter company display. Showing L C Smith & Corona typewriters. 514 State Street.
