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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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Grocery Store Checkout Counter
January 13, 1955
Two clerks at a grocery store checkout counter with a woman and child purchasing milk and bread. The shelves behind the register are stocked with a selection of grocery merchandise. Possibly Wilcox...
Office Supplies Store
June 22, 1927
The interior of the first floor of Blied Office Supplies Store. Three men and a women are behind counters and a desk.
Woman Buying Chickens at Madison Packing Company
1926
View towards a woman standing at the meat counter of the Madison Packing Company. She is buying chickens from a man standing behind the counter which has a display of meat in glass cases.
Fruit on Display
July 28, 1939
Shelves of canned food provide a backdrop for an array of fresh pears, grapes, and plums at the Frank Bros. market.
Clapps Baby Foods Display
November 2, 1945
Oscar Mazursky Store, 301 West Mifflin Street, featuring a Clapps Baby Foods display with a Life magazine poster on the counter. Shelves are stacked with popular brands of canned goods, Arm and Ham...
Three Men in a Grocery Store
1910
Three men posing behind the counter of a grocery store. Canned goods and jars of candy on the shelves behind them on the left, and pharmaceuticals are on the shelves on the right. Cigars are in the...
