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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
"Dreamland" Motel
A truck with an American flag on the back parked next to a sign for the Dreamland Motel. Across the street is the Wauwatosa Savings and the Tri City National Bank. An airplane is flying overhead.
Truck Stop Pay Phones
1983
Truck drivers using pay phones at a truck stop off Interstate 90.
Santa's Super Rocket
The bus has been transformed into a rocket ship specifically designed for Santa, dubbed "Santa's Super Rocket."
Friends
Two friends outdoors near railroad tracks. In the background is the historic Wilson Hotel, on the corner of E. Wilson and S. Blair Streets.
