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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.
Mailman
July 11, 1981
A male mail carrier taking a break sitting in a mailbox on the sidewalk in a neighborhood.
Mail Room
circa 1960-1969
Man sorting envelopes in a mail room near tall stacks of mail.
Railroad Mail Car
November 3, 1967
Workers sort mail into bins in a railroad mail car.
Milwaukee Mail Truck
1909
Milwaukee's first mail truck, here referred to as an "auto car." The date comes from a similar postcard that is postmarked. Caption reads: "Auto Car in Mail Service, Milwaukee."
Mailman John L. Smith
July 29, 1965
John L. Smith standing on a Madison sidewalk with letters in his hand and his mail cart beside him. He is featured in a newspaper article about his busy life. Besides his job he is a father, church...
