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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 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.
Sentry's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Department
February 14, 1985
A display of fruit and vegetables in the East Side Foods Sentry store.
Child at Candy Case
May 7, 1964
Americus Kates, 10, surveys the candy case before making his selections.
Vending Machines
April 20, 1967
High school freshman use vending machines for lunch.
12th & Clybourne Traffic Jam
Slightly elevated view of cars, trucks, and buses in a traffic jam. A sign is on the right for Rocco's, under a neon sign to "Drink Blatz Beer."
Food Drive for Thanksgiving
November 18, 1965
Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army.
Snowy Traffic Jam
February 2, 1967
Winter scene of a snowstorm that hit Milwaukee just at rush hour creating a traffic headache for homebound commuters (seen here at Wisconsin and Milwaukee streets), although only four inches of sno...
