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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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Accessing Collections
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.
Snow Scene
March 9, 1936
Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the crowd. Power, telephone and telegraph poles l...
Gas Powered Shovel Clearing Snow
1936
Winter scene with a gas powered shovel being used to move snow from a snow-covered road. A man is standing in the road to the right, watching. The shovel is on a Koehring crawler type excavator. In...
Caterpillar Wausau-Plow Snow Plow
1920
A winter scene showing two men standing behind the blade, on either side of the cab, of a Caterpillar Wausau-Plow Snow V-Plow. They are removing snow from the road.
Snow Scene Near Evergreen Store
1935
Winter scene with a V-blade snowplow from the front plowing snow from a road. The snow is billowing to the left side of the road in a large arc. Trees are in the background. Caption on foot of po...
Snow Removal after a Storm
February 1933
Winter scene showing snow removal vehicles working to clear the snow on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee after a winter blizzard.
Clearing a Path with a Snowblower
January 12, 1963
Winter scene with teenage boy snow blowing the driveway of a house. His letter jacket has "64" on the sleeve. He is also wearing a stocking cap with pom-pom, gloves and glasses. In the background i...
