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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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Crowds on South Pinckney Street
December 6, 1944
Christmas shoppers on South Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square. Businesses include the Three Sisters store, Mangels store, W.T. Grant store and a sign for a Chop Suey restaurant.
W.T. Grant Company Shoe Window
May 21, 1946
W.T. Grant Company display window, 19 South Pinckney Street, featuring California Playshoes for $1.99 each.
Strauss Shoes and W.T. Grant Building
June 22, 1935
Art Deco building housing Strauss's Shoes at 19 S. Pinckney Street, and the W.T. Grant Company Department Store, located at 21-23 S. Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square. Mueller-Simpson Co. Tailo...
Wisco Hardware "Trainload" Window
February 7, 1944
Display window at Wisco Hardware Store, 15 South Brearly Street, featuring "Trainload Buying Power."
Carmen's Coat Window
September 29, 1944
Five mannequins wearing Harrismoor coats in the window of Carmen's at 7 South Pinckney Street.
W.T. Grant Co. Variety Store
October 20, 1935
View of South Pinckney Street. From right to left: W.T. Grant Co., variety store, 21-23 S. Pinckney Street, and Strauss Shoes, 19 S. Pinckney Street, on the ground floor of Madison Merchants Realty...
