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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 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.
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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.
Highway Trailer
1948
Twin refrigerated trailers, "coldmobiles," manufactured by the Highway Trailer Co. of Edgerton.
Crawford's Custard
View from street towards the front of Crawford's Custard. The sign in front reads "Fountain Service" and "Curb Service." A car is parked on the left side of the building.
Parting for Progress
1961
Two automobiles driving on a highway cutting between two halves of a rock outcropping. The rock was blasted to build the road.
Civilian Conservation Corps 660th Company State Forestry S-79
Camp Mercer sign spelled out with stones on a small, built-up hill. Camp buildings and parked cars are in the background.
