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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.
Hankscraft Baby Dish
November 4, 1947
Hankscrafts electric baby food dish, heated for serving.
Electric Motor for Badger Manufacturing Company
November 12, 1945
Electric motor in use at the Badger Manufacturing Company.
Washing Machine Mechanic
December 20, 1944
A mechanic in the service department of Hefty Sales Corporation is preparing to do a complete overhaul of a washing machine.
Electrical Boxes on Wall
July 19, 1949
A panel of Square D electrical boxes installed on a wall by Endres Electric Company.
Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show
April 7, 1949
Mrs. Robert C. Pittenger and son, Mike, examine a new electric dishwasher at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium.
Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show
April 7, 1949
Dorothy Lorenzen looks at several small kitchen appliances while she holds one of the earliest electric toasters at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium.
