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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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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.
Carving the Turkey
November 25, 1965
A man takes pleasure in the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, with other food items in the foreground and vending machines behind him.
Child at Candy Case
May 7, 1964
Americus Kates, 10, surveys the candy case before making his selections.
Vending Machines
April 20, 1967
High school freshman use vending machines for lunch.
Story Time
September 26, 1967
Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on.
Food Drive for Thanksgiving
November 18, 1965
Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army.
Milk Dispenser
1955
Mr. Robot, a coin operated milk vending machine promoted by the Wisconsin Dairy Caravan, dispenses milk into a paper cup.
