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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.
Sternberg Truck
1910
A 1910 model Sternberg Truck which was manufactured in Milwaukee.
Allis Chalmers Tractor-Truck
1914
During the years 1913-1914 Allis-Chalmers manufactured this vehicle, a tractor-truck, which was primarily sold to the French and Russian governments.
First Four-Wheel Drive
1909
Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at the rear of the steam-powered vehicle.
Winther Motor Company, Factory Interior
1921
The interior of the Truck Assembly Room at the Winther Motor and Truck Company factory.
Winther Motor Company, Factory Interior
1921
Factory workers in the Motor Assembly Department of the Winther Motor and Truck Company.
