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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.
Trouble Shooting
September 29, 1962
Electronics training at the United School of Electronic Trades gives a student the opportunity to trouble shoot problems.
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.
Portable Fan
June 14, 1956
Sam Adair of 4380 N Wildwood Av., Shorewood, Wisconsin wearing fan labeled Rheem Personal Portable Air Conditioner around his neck to stay cool.
St. Joseph's Computer
December 14, 1967
A secretary in the pathology department at St. Joseph's Hospital working at a new computer.
Truax Field Radar
Man wearing microphone and headphones seated before a radar screen.
Airline Computer Network
September 26, 1984
A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone.
