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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.
Weiner Processing
1943
Female employees processing "Yellow Band" weiners at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
Sausage Making
1944
Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
Grocery Store Shoppers
February 23, 1955
A grocery store employee helps a mother and two children purchase Dean's milk.
Man Operating Drill Press
1944
Man operating a drill press at Madison-Kipp Corporation, 201 Waubesa Street, producing war materiel during World War II.
Workers at Lyons Turkey Farm
November 1947
Female workers on the production line at Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, plucking turkeys.