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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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Woman Using Sewing Machine
1955
Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background.
Polio Vaccine in Transport
1955
Polio vaccine being unloaded (?) from a Northwest airplane.
The White Grocery and Filling Station
1947
A gas station attendant puts on his coat outside the White Grocery and Filling Station in Madison. A sign near the pumps reads, "Please Give Me Ten Seconds To Put On My Coat."
Lincoln Filling Station
1920
View from intersection toward a small filling station in Illinois.
Filling Station at Old Newport Resort on Lower Dells
1929
Filling station with attendant standing outside near two pumps. There is a stand with signs advertising Old Gold cigarettes, 5 cent vegetable sandwiches, Prima Special, Hires, and Coca-Cola. A cler...
Shell Filling Station
June 15, 1948
The Shell filling station, 341 State Street, as workers are starting to tear it down. The station, built in 1924 and at one time judged the second most beautiful gasoline station in the United Stat...
