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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Wisconsin Telephone Co. Switchboard
August 3, 1931
Wisconsin Telephone Co. switchboard, front view.
Wisconsin Telephone Co. Switchboard
August 3, 1931
Wisconsin Telephone Co. switchboard, rear view.
Electric Switchboard
August 9, 1931
Electric switchboard at Dependent Children's Home.
Early Electrical Switchboard
October 19, 1931
Early electrical switchboard, Edison and Company.
City of Madison Water Well No. 4
February 25, 1932
Interior of pumphouse for City of Madison well no. 4, 5 N. Randall Avenue, showing the Electric Machinery Co. motor driven by Sullivan angle compound air compressor and an airlift. Water is pumped ...
Harold Smith Pumping Gas
April 3, 1931
Harold Smith, a University of Wisconsin football tackle, is working his way through school by pumping gas at the Monroe Street Valvoline Oil service station at 1441 Monroe Street.
