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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.
C.W.A. Pay Station
December 9, 1933
Hundreds of men are crowded around the newly opened Dane County C.W.A. pay station, at the corner of West Dayton and North Carroll Streets.
Shell Service Station
September 27, 1934
Man filling automobile at Shell Service Station, located at 2643 University Avenue at Farley Avenue. Another man is working on an automobile on a lift outside the station.
Diamond Gas Station
May 9, 1937
Two men servicing an automobile at the Lewis D-X Diamond Gas Station, 118 King Street at S. Webster Street.
Nash Cars at Governor Julius P. Heil's Inauguration
January 2, 1939
Four Nash automobiles at Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Station, 219 S. Blair Street, with Milwaukee Road passenger car in the background. The occasion is Governor Julius P. Heil's inauguration.
Gas Station Explosion
June 16, 1933
A crowd gathers to view the collapsed Kleinheinz Pennco service station (Pennsylvania Oil Company), 702 S. Park Street, the result of an explosion.
Automobile Stunt
August 4, 1933
Arthur Santell is pulling three Pontiac automobiles, each with a man on the running board, with his teeth in front of General Auto Service and Henry Motor Co., 323 West Johnson Street.
