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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.
Woolworth's Glassware Counter
September 20, 1934
F.W. Woolworth Co., 1-5 E. Main Street, glassware counter.
F.W. Woolworth's Ribbon Department
April 20, 1928
Interior view of the F.W. Woolworth Company's ribbon department.
Woolworth Co. Hardware Window
September 13, 1935
F.W. Woolworth Co. hardware display window showing tools and kitchen utensils.
Woolworth Store Easter Basket Display
April 8, 1935
F.W. Woolworth Store, 1-5 E. Main Street, with a display of 27 Easter baskets.
F.W. Woolworth's Interior
October 27, 1955
Interior of the new, self-service Woolworth's variety store at 2-8 West Mifflin Street. The view is toward the front from the balcony, showing main floor sales area, with merchandise on display cou...
Hill's Fur Coat Department
August 5, 1935
Hill's Dry Goods Company, 202 State Street, fur coat department, showing racks of fur coats.
