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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.
Rhythm Girls
June 25, 1932
Fanchon and Mario "Rhythm Girls" posing in front of an A&W Root Beer. They are standing in a line and holding mugs of root beer.
R & W Root Beer Stand
July 18, 1940
R & W Root Beer stand, at East Washington Avenue and Thornton Avenue.
R & W Root Beer Stand
July 18, 1940
R & W Root Beer stand, East Washington Avenue at Thornton Avenue.
Calvert Liquor Sign
December 13, 1944
Calvert Liquor sign displayed in the window of the Plymouth Liquor Distributers, 2717 Atwood Avenue, sign reads: "Clear Heads Choose Calvert."
Schlitz Beer Display
April 18, 1945
Schlitz display with four bottles of beer displayed as flowers with sign "Summer Time is Schlitz Time."
Paint Window Display
April 12, 1932
Sherwin Williams paint window display at Baron Brothers Department Store, 12-18 W. Mifflin Street.
