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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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Veteran Bus Driver Ends Career
August 1960
Elmer Markin, veteran Greyhound Bus driver, completes his last trip in his 35-year career. Markin helps a passenger exit from the bus at the Madison Union Bus Station. Markin drove the bus over two...
Cab-Bus Collision
August 26, 1946
Overturned taxicab, after collision with a city bus at the corner of Regent and Mills Street, injuring four people. Also shows a crowd of people looking on.
Badger Bus Coach
April 28, 1949
A Badger Bus Company bus picking up passengers on Fairchild Street due to the Union Bus Station being closed because of a Northland Greyhound Bus strike.
Manchester's Department Store at Christmas
Shoppers crowd the interior of Manchester's Department Store at Christmas time.
Memorial Day Activities
May 30, 1952
Part of the crowd gathered on the Capitol Square in Madison to watch the Memorial Day parade.
Badger Bus Line
June 5, 1946
Henry Murphy washing the Badger Bus Line, Inc. coach that he drives between Madison and Milwaukee.