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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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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.
Woman Inspecting Hot Dogs
1944
Female employee inspecting the quality of "Yellow Band" weiners at Oscar Mayer plant, 910 Mayer Avenue.
Weiner Processing
1943
Female employees processing "Yellow Band" weiners at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
Roundy Coughlin and Butcher with Sausages
February 18, 1947
Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin with butcher and strings of sausages.
Aerial View of Oscar Mayer Meat Packing Plant
1932
Aerial view of Oscar Mayer Meat Packing Plant and the surrounding countryside.
Man Operating Drill Press
1944
Man operating a drill press at Madison-Kipp Corporation, 201 Waubesa Street, producing war materiel during World War II.
Aerial View of Oscar Mayer Meat Packing Plant
1932
Aerial view of the Oscar Mayer Meat Packing Plant and the surrounding neighborhoods on the east side.
