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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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Roadside Milk Bar
September 11, 1945
Interior of Roadside Milk Bar with soda fountain, service island, and booths. The business was located on Middleton Road (University Avenue), just before the entry to the Post Farm.
Carlson's Store Ice Cream Bar Soda fountain
March 13, 1948
Old soda fountain at Carlson's Store ice cream bar store, 2138 Regent Street.
Lawson Drug Store Interior
December 29, 1947
Lawson Drug Store interior, view of the soda fountain, featuring Borden's ice cream products.
McCoy's Ice Cream Parlor
June 2, 1937
An interior view of McCoy's Ice Cream Parlor, 507 State Street, with soda fountain & bar. The front door and front window are in the background.
Hudson Park Pharmacy
December 29, 1947
Hudson Park Pharmacy, 2337 Atwood Avenue, interior view of soda fountain, with a display of greeting cards and booths, and a poster for "Elsie" Borden's Ice Cream.
Fountain Room at Manchester's Department Store
December 21, 1944
View of the booths and lunch counter in the Fountain Room restaurant at Manchester's Department Store.
