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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.
Road Oil Spraying Tank Truck
January 25, 1929
A tank truck that sprays road oil is parked in front of Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company, located at 613-629 East Main Street.
Valvoline Oil Company Truck
November 5, 1930
A Valvoline Oil Company tank truck made by Diamond T is parked awaiting a job.
Capitol Oil Company
April 3, 1929
Back lot of the Capitol Oil Company, 919 E. Main Street.
Capitol Oil Company
April 3, 1929
A railroad tanker car is sitting on tracks next to fuel storage tanks at the Capitol Oil Company, 919 East Main Street.
Road Equipment Exhibit
February 1, 1929
Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company road equipment exhibit showing Badger portable sand gravel bins and pit-hoppers exhibited on Monona Avenue. The Garrick Theatre and Beaver Building (National Mut...
Road Equipment
January 29, 1931
Elevated view of Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, on display at Wisconsin Road Show on Monona Avenue. On the other side o...
