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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.
Pyrofax Plant
October 9, 1929
Interior of Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, looking north west.
Nilles Hardware and Paints Co. Interior
July 3, 1929
Interior view of the Nilles Hardware and Paints Co., 2330 Atwood Avenue.
Concrete Block Machine
March 12, 1929
Concrete block machine as seen from the front, at Madison Silo Co.
Pyrofax Plant
September 1929
View across field towards the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, almost finished.
Pyrofax Gas Appliances Booth
August 22, 1929
Two salesmen posing in the Pyrofax gas appliance booth at the Dane County Fair.
