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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.
DeSoto V8 Firedome Automobile
September 19, 1953
DeSoto V8 Firedome automobile taken for Schappe Motors, 801 East Washington Avenue. Monona Bay is in the background.
DeSoto DeLuxe Automobile
October 1, 1953
Side view of a DeSoto DeLuxe automobile posed by the lake, taken for Schappe Motors by the Kulzick Advertising Agency.
Schappe Motors Employee
February 17, 1954
Portrait of Persh Curran, Service Director at Schappe Motors Incorporated, 801 East Washington Avenue.
Packard Convertible Automobile
July 15, 1953
Four men and "the Caribbean," a new Packard convertible automobile, parked in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol building.
Car Showroom
March 27, 1955
Four new Cadillac automobiles in Pyramid Motor Company showroom, 434 W. Gilman Street.
Damaged Car at Breese Stevens Field
May 19, 1950
Damaged car at Breese Stevens Field. Photo taken for Attorney Farrand Shuttleworth.
