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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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Beer Delivery
September 3, 1955
Miller delivery man carrying a keg of Miller Beer on his shoulder.
Clark Station
1962
Clark gasoline station near Brookfield, Wisconsin, which sold gasoline but not service work.
West Allis Service Station
2008
Built in 1927, this small Wadhams station, located at 1647 South Seventy-sixth Street, is one of a handful of the company's signature pagoda stations still standing.
Milwaukee Service Station
2008
In 2001 the former Copeland Service Station reopened as a coffee shop in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood. The restored building is located at 4924 West Roosevelt Drive.
Men Working on Water Wheel
Men work on a huge, metal water wheel at Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company.
Telegraph Operator
September 27, 1956
Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years.
