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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 Fender Bender
1956
Passers-by help move a disabled vehicle after an automobile accident on Wisconsin Avenue.
Girl in a Mini-Race Car
May 2, 1956
Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car.
Wrecked Automobile
October 5, 1912
A wrecked automobile, which crashed during the 1912 Milwaukee Grand Prize Race (later called the American Grand Prix); possibly car #35, in which driver Ralph DePalma was seriously injured.
Automobile Accident
April 3, 1979
Emergency workers assist the passenger injured in an accident at North Sherman Boulevard and W. North Avenue. The automobile, which was driven by a nineteenth-year old youth, went through a red li...
Short Wave Communication
January 26, 1956
Sitting in a car, a woman and her daughter are talking to another daughter who is at Albrook Air Force Base in the Canal Zone.
Truck Accident
June 24, 1971
Accident involving a UPS delivery van and a semitrailer in downtown Milwaukee. Four men, including the driver who is holding his head, were injured.
