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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.
Automobile near Road Sign
May 1926
An automobile rounds a turn near several traffic signs placed along the edge of a paved state road.
Hayden & Harms Dealership
September 1921
Exterior view of Hayden & Harms, an International Harvester dealership. Several men are standing near the building's front door near displayed farm implements, while another man is sitting behind t...
Dangers of Jaywalking
August 1927
A man jaywalking across a street in front of a moving automobile. The road is lined with houses and commercial buildings, and additional automobiles are parked alongside the curb.
Man Walking near Barbed Wire Fence
1926
A man walks near a fallen barbed wire fence lying in the snow.
Automobile Stranded in Snow
1918
An automobile resting in a bank of snow along a road near commercial buildings, probably on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Signs on the buildings read: "Edelweiss," "French Table D'Hote, Spaghetti Rav...
Vehicle at Stop Sign
January 1928
Rear view of a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat stopping an automobile at a stop sign on a dirt road as a truck approaches from the opposite direction.
