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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.
Flipping Pancakes
June 11, 1989
Man flipping pancakes at "farm breakfast" as part of "June is Dairy Month" promotion in Washington County.
Sentry's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Department
February 14, 1985
A display of fruit and vegetables in the East Side Foods Sentry store.
Grocery Display
1934
Cans and boxes of Hershey's chocolate products arranged in pyramids on the grocery floor.
Hotdog Cookout
May 15, 1965
Girl Scouts cooking hotdogs over an open fire. The Great Blue Heron council weekend campout was held at Hartland Sportsman's Club grounds.
Candy Maker
October 11, 1981
Jim Niemann decorates dipped chocolates at his family's business, Niemann's Home Made Chocolate Shop.
Lemonade Stand
July 1967
Several young boys selling fruit drinks, penny candy, and snow cones to parched pedestrians. A city bus is in the background.
