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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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Chef Frosting a Cake
December 21, 1944
Otto Wiedholz, Vienna French Pastry Shop, 334 State Street, frosting a cake. Otto and his wife, Elsie, 414 Chestnut Street, are the owners of the pastry shop.
Fresh Bread from the Oven
A baker, clad in apron, pulls a tray of freshly-baked rolls from the oven.
Man Icing a Cake
February 10, 1938
Man icing a small cake, taken for Kennedy Dairy Co.
Gardner Bakery
April 2, 1928
Gardner Baking Company, showing men taking Purity Bread from ovens, 849 E. Washington Avenue.
Gardner Bakery Donut Making
April 2, 1928
Gardner Baking Company making Purity Doughnuts. Doughnuts are coming down a chute from a machine, and a baker is standing and attending one of the machines.
Baker at Gardner Baking Company
April 11, 1928
A baker is looking into the oven at Gardner Baking Company, with a rack of loaves of bread cooling beside him.