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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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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.
Carving the Turkey
November 25, 1965
A man takes pleasure in the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, with other food items in the foreground and vending machines behind him.
Child in a Shopping Cart
January 27, 1956
Child in a shopping cart with a frozen Armour smoked ham.
Pabst Beer Kettle
August 15, 1984
Richard A. Schulz is checking a kettle of beer brewing at the Pabst Brewery.
Candy Maker
October 11, 1981
Jim Niemann decorates dipped chocolates at his family's business, Niemann's Home Made Chocolate Shop.
Stunning Cattle
circa 1940-1949
A packing house worker demonstrates the revolutionary Thor air-powered cattle stunner that was called the first successful pneumatic stunning tool for the meat-packing industry. The American Socie...
Food Drive for Thanksgiving
November 18, 1965
Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army.
