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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.
Ray-O-Vac Fourth Floor Office
October 31, 1946
Interior view of Ray-O-Vac's large, open fourth floor office with desks and chairs. Behind the desk in the foreground is a large Rolodex in a box on wheels.
Ray-O-Vac Flashlights and Batteries
October 17, 1940
Table top display rack with various sizes of Ray-O-Vac flashlights and batteries "Use Guaranteed Leak-Proof Cells."
Aerial View of Ray-O-Vac Buildings
October 18, 1945
Madison Ray-O-Vac plant, 2313-25 Winnebago Street.
Ray-O-Vac Flashlights & Batteries
October 18, 1940
Table top display rack with various sizes of Ray-O-Vac flashlights and batteries.
Ray-O-Vac Flashlight Display
February 28, 1941
Display of six Ray-O-Vac flashlights and batteries.
Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Factory Floor
April 5, 1945
RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) factory floor showing workers making batteries.