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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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Edward N. Farber
September 6, 1957
Edward Farber, a prominent Milwaukee druggist, double checks a prescription order on the day before he retired. Farber operated his popular drugstore, located at 4217 W. North Avenue, for 43 years.
Falk's Drug Store
1948
Exterior view from street of O.N. Falk's Drug Store, on Main Street.
Employees at Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit
August 25, 1936
Elevated view of Wisconsin Historical Society employees Dawn Young and Ray Lamb who are staffing the museum's historical drugstore exhibit.
Sumner's Drugstore
1910
Mr. Sumner stands behind his drugstore's well-stocked candy counters.
Ott's Drugstore
1904
Interior view of Ott's Drugstore which was located at 21 North Pinckney Street.
