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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Legislative Reference Bureau Library
December 23, 1947
Three men seated at tables using the reference materials in the Legislative Reference Bureau library. Seated at the front table left to right: Wesley Hillery and Anton Jacobson. At the rear table i...
Post Office at Christmas
December 18, 1947
Postal clerk Matt Morrell stacking sacked parcels on a cart at the Madison Post Office, 215 Monona Avenue, to be hauled to the railroad station during the Christmas season.
Hi-Lo Supermarket Clerks
January 23, 1953
Interior view of Hi-Lo supermarket at 2038 Jenifer Street, featuring two of the store's clerks and food displays.
State Legislative Page
July 17, 1947
A legislative page sits on a table in a doorway in the Wisconsin State Capitol awaiting adjournment of the state legislature.
Wisconsin State Journal Employees
December 1947
Wisconsin State Journal employees in the mail room bundling newspapers.