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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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Electronic Voltametric Apparatus
August 27, 1982
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. provides an opportunity for a university engineering student to have hands-on experience and instruction from a company research scientist.
One Microsecond Memory System
December 10, 1965
Dennis Dokken examines a one microsecond memory system that enabled computers to read a million bits of information per second.
Electric Hair
January 10, 1966
Gail Lukas' hair stands on end when she places her hand on a Van de Graalf generator in a demonstration by the Atomic Energy Commission for junior high school students.
Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show
April 7, 1949
Barbara Lampert, a University of Wisconsin senior, tunes a 1921 model radio next to her new radio-record player at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium.
Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show
April 7, 1949
Mrs. Robert C. Pittenger and son, Mike, examine a new electric dishwasher at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium.
Fudge Party
1890
College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
