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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.
Scrapped Automobiles in Mud
March 24, 1962
Chief's automobile parts "graveyard" near the intersection of the West Beltline and Highway 51.
Wrecked Automobile Remnants
August 19, 1961
Several wrecked automobiles lay on the edge of a wooded area. Shrubs grow around, and in, the automobile remains.
Wrecked and Abandoned Automobiles in Pasture
May 16, 1962
Wrecked and abandoned automobiles in a hidden rural hollow.
Dairy Queen Refreshment Stand
May 29, 1960
View from across street of Dairy Queen refreshment stand at nighttime. Two cars are visible outside the building.
Mendota Mental Health Institute
June 28, 1962
Interior view of a historically-restored hallway in the Mendota Mental Health Institute (Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane).