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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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Loading Milk Cans
1937
A man unloads milk cans from a Ford Model T pickup truck at a creamery receiving station.
Schlitz Grain Elevator
Grain elevator with large Schlitz sign. There are railroad cars on a railroad track in the foreground.
Man Standing on a W & M Steam Shovel
A man stands on a W & M railroad car known as a steam shovel.
Dairy Exterior
Exterior view of a dairy. Two cars and a horse-drawn wagon loaded with milk cans are parked in front of building.
Horlick's Food Company Letterhead
Letterhead of the Horlick's Food Company of Racine, Wisconsin, from the 1890s, showing the Horlick's factory, a dairy maid with a cow and a container of Horlick's Malted Milk, and a grain harvestin...
Gridley Dairy Milk Wagon
A man holding a bottle of milk is standing and posing next to a horse-drawn Gridley Dairy milk wagon. Two other men are standing on the left near a brick building in the background.
