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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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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.
Felix's Bakery Display Window
June 10, 1930
Display of wedding cakes in window of bakery of Felix Odehnal, 715 University Avenue.
Making Sandbakalese
November 23, 1955
Mrs. Kenneth Jothen, Mrs. Hart Sorum, and Mrs. Gordon Steldt making sanbakalese, or sand tarts, a Norwegian dessert for the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church lutefisk dinner.
Clark Wilkinson Wedding
August 4, 1953
Clark Wilkinson wedding. The bride and groom are cutting the wedding cake.
Clark Station
1962
Clark gasoline station near Brookfield, Wisconsin, which sold gasoline but not service work.
Final Touch
January 1973
A baker puts the final touch on the frosting of a layer cake with a spatula. A pile of cake boards and an unfrosted cake are on the table in front of him.
Comparing Shirts
August 14, 1989
A man is holding up a sweater on a hangar over a clothing rack. in the foreground a woman is facing him and holding up another shirt. Caption reads: "Terry Soykup of Brookfield compared shirts whil...
