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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.
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company Pass
1933
Pass issued by the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company for the week of December 17-23, 1933.
Milwaukee Electric Ry. & Lt. Co. Letterhead
Letterhead of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company, with a three-quarter view of a man driving an electric cable car marked "State St." under a lighted twin lamppost. Lighted bulbs, ele...
Electric Hair
January 10, 1966
Gail Lukas' hair stands on end when she places her hand on a Van de Graalf generator in a demonstration by the Atomic Energy Commission for junior high school students.
Airline Computer Network
September 26, 1984
A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone.
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Station
1940
The Romanesque Chicago & Northwestern Railway station.
Grace Putnam
December 26, 1931
Grace Putnam, executive secretary of the Madison Woman's Club, in the Woman's Building, 240 W. Gilman street.
