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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.
U.S. Post Office Sorting Room
March 28, 1929
Men working in the U.S. Post Office sorting room, 215 Monona Avenue.
U.S. Post Office
April 28, 1929
View across street towards the U.S. Post Office located at 215 Monona Avenue.
Post Office at Christmas
December 18, 1947
Two postal employees of the Madison post office, 215 Monona Avenue, sorting heaps of packages in carts at Christmas. Pictured from left are clerks Fred Boyd, and Harold Burchette.
U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction
March 31, 1928
U.S. Post Office, with a close-up view of stone carving on a column capitol with a rosette over it, at 215 Monona Avenue. (Martin L. King Jr. Boulevard.)
School Field Trip to the U.S. Post Office
March 23, 1932
A man is leading Dudgeon School children through the mail sorting area on their tour of the post office.
