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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.
Milwaukee Exchange
1883
Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange.
Switchboard Operator
1915
Josie Jepson (or Jepsen) at the telephone switchboard on Washington Island.
Switchboard Operator
January 23, 1958
Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
Telephone Exchange Switchboard
August 14, 1946
Five men are rebuilding the "Fairchild" exchange switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. Four women telephone operators in the background are operating another exchange switchboard.
Telephone Switchboard
Mrs. Thompto and employee Ethel Clemens working at the telephone switchboard.
