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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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Docks at Jones Island
October 28, 1938
Docks and shanties at Jones Island, with smokestacks and cranes in the background.
Fish Shop
October 28, 1938
A fish shop made of several small, interconnected buildings. Signs for fresh or smoked fish are on several parts of the shop. In the background is a railroad car.
Man Wallpapering
Slightly elevated view of a young man preparing a piece of wallpaper to be hung. On the ground and under furniture newspapers have been laid to protect the room.
Jones Island Storefront
October 28, 1938
Signs for Kingsbury Beer and politicians are in the window of a storefront.
J. Robert Taylor Children on Pier
Ellen, Donna and Fred Taylor standing on the dock of a lake with a string of fish held up between them.
J. Robert Taylor at Desk
1938
Informal portrait of J. Robert Taylor at his desk talking on the phone.
