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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.
Case Tractor and Grader
1935
A Galion E-Z Lift road grader pulled by a Case Model L tractor, allowing a close-up view of the grading machinery.
Four Wheel Drive Truck
Dump truck manufactured by the Four Wheel Drive Co. of Clintonville and owned by Shawano County. The truck is equipped for rolling and dressing unpaved roads. This image was used for publicity pu...
Building I-94 with Earthmover
October 1959
Construction of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County using an earthmover manufactured by Allis Chalmers.
Dirt Road in Antigo
circa 1910-1919
Rural dirt road in the town of Antigo. Houses are in the distance.
Changing a Tire
1923
Tire blowouts were a frequent hazard of early automobile travel.
U.S. Highway 12 and 16
1926
Car on a dirt highway west of Hustler. The highway is U.S. 12 and 16.
