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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.
Driving Down Muddy Dirt Road
1915
Man driving an automobile down a muddy dirt road. Caption on back reads: "Grading road with surfacing." The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to d...
Driving Safety
July 1927
Automobiles approaching a turn in a paved road with billboards on either side. Photograph taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrate safe driving techniques.
Vehicle at Stop Sign
January 1928
Rear view of a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat stopping an automobile at a stop sign on a dirt road as a truck approaches from the opposite direction.
Group in Automobile
1915
A group of two men and three women are riding on a rural dirt road in an automobile with its top folded down. There is a lake or river in the background.
Horse-Drawn Carriage on Dirt Road
1915
View from roadside of a man and woman riding in a horse-drawn carriage down a dirt road in a wooded area.
Man Driving International Truck on Dirt Road
1914
Well-dressed man driving an International Model M truck along a rural dirt road lined with trees. There is a guard fence on the left side of the road.
