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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.
Thom McAn Shoe Store
August 16, 1944
Clerks help customers try on shoes at the Thom McAn Shoe Store, 224 State Street.
Thom McAn Shoe Store Window
March 16, 1934
Thom McAn shoe store, 214 State Street, display windows.
University of Wisconsin Athletes Trying on Shoes
December 1940
University of Wisconsin athletes trying on shoes in the Walk-Over Shoe Store, 8 East Mifflin Street.
Nelson's Jewelry Store Interior
December 13, 1940
Interior view of Nelson's Jewelry Store, 21 North Pinckney Street.
Stores Along East Main Street on Capitol Square
January 3, 1944
Cars parked along East Main Street on Capitol side showing Kresge's Building, Miller's Women's Clothing, Feltman & Curme Shoe Store, and J.C. Penney's Department store.
Christmas at Manchester's Department Store
December 13, 1940
Interior of Manchester's Department store on the main floor during the Christmas season. The store was located at 2 East Mifflin Street.
