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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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Butchering Hogs
September 9, 1931
Gutted hogs hang from back feet on the Oscar Mayer butchering line with butchers at work.
Fair Oaks Market Interior
June 20, 1931
Fair Oaks Market interior, with meat counter and other food products, butcher and customers. August F. Schulz was the manager of the store.
Roundy Coughlin and Butcher with Sausages
February 18, 1947
Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin with butcher and strings of sausages.
Ham Inspection at Oscar Mayer
November 19, 1931
Oscar Mayer workers inspecting hams at a work table.
Sausage Making
1944
Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
Woman Purchasing Ham
September 8, 1931
Woman purchasing Oscar Mayer ham at Levenick Brothers meat market at 1406 Williamson Street.
