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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.
Fire Damaged Car
March 14, 1945
In the recently completed paint department of Royal Body Co., 9-13 N. Brooks Street, a worker is preparing a sedan, the body and fenders of which are going to be re-painted after being damaged in a...
Kayser Motors
April 13, 1949
Five automotive technicians work on engines inside the engine rebuilding department at Kayser Motors.
Waters Motor Company
December 15, 1945
Herb Pierstorff, mechanic, shown on the left with Merlin Loe, apprentice mechanic, recently discharged veteran of the Armed Forces, at Waters Motor Company, 802 East Washington Avenue.
Edwards Tire Company
December 15, 1945
"Ole" Odegaard, tire repairman at Edwards Tire Company, 506 University Avenue, re-treading tires.
Schappe Motors Employee
February 17, 1954
Portrait of Persh Curran, Service Director at Schappe Motors Incorporated, 801 East Washington Avenue.
Ken Tewalt
January 7, 1954
Portrait of Ken Tewalt, the "Lubricare" technician at Caves Buick Company, 21 North Park Street.
