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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.
H.S. Manchester's, Incorporated, Department Store
1954
Manchester's, Incorporated, a department store on Mifflin Street.
Sears-Roebuck Department Store
1954
View of the Sears-Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue. The portion of East Washington in front of the store is full of parked automobiles.
Yost-Kessinich Department Store, from North Fairchild Street
1973
View across North Fairchild Street towards Yost-Kessinich Department Store on the corner of State Street. Show windows display mannequins in women's clothing among fake pine trees. The windows are ...
Pinckney Street
1954
Pinckney Street, near the corner of East Washington Avenue. To the left is a bank building, in the center a shoe store, and on the right a theatre.
Nolden Building
1916
The Nolden building on the corner of State and Fairchild Streets. This would later become the site of Yost Department Store. The Nolden sisters are standing in the doorway.
View of State Street
1958
View of State Street, looking west. Across the intersection on the corner is Sandra's Millinery at 101 State Street.
