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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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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.
Ham Inspection at Oscar Mayer
November 19, 1931
Oscar Mayer workers inspecting hams at a work table.
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.
Hogs Prepared for Butchering
1964
Four dead hogs hang from a pole outside at night ready for butchering. The hogs hang with their heads facing the ground and their bellies and throats slit. Snow and grass cover the ground.
Sausage Machine
June 24, 1931
Sausages coming off of the sausage machine at the Madison Packing Company, 307 West Johnson Street. Standing around the machine are eight workers and Oswald B. Neesvig.
Trimming Hams at Oscar Mayer
November 19, 1931
Men trimming hams at their jobs at Oscar Mayer.
Weighing Hams at Oscar Mayer
November 19, 1931
A man weighing hams on a scale at Oscar Mayer.
