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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.
Scales
July 30, 1929
A man reading a scale at the University of Wisconsin engineering building.
Toledo Scale
July 30, 1929
A man reads a Toledo scale at the University of Wisconsin engineering building.
Oscar Mayer Laboratory
September 9, 1931
Lab worker conducting a test at the Oscar Mayer laboratory.
Tanks at Hydraulics Laboratory
September 26, 1928
Tanks at Hydraulics Laboratory, 660 N. Park Street, before moving, taken from west on cribbing, at the University of Wisconsin.
First Baby Born in Madison in 1932
January 2, 1931
First baby born at Methodist Hospital, 1932, 309 W. Washington Avenue. Nurse Mrs. Gorden L. Fredendall is holding Brunell Winston Ethun.
Memorial Union Kitchen
September 25, 1928
Main kitchen, seen from the middle south side, University of Wisconsin, Memorial Union.