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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.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Weight-o-graph
October 8, 1928
Weight-o-graph at the University of Wisconsin Dairy Building. Cream City Scale Company.
Madison Packing Company
February 28, 1928
Madison Packing Company interior showing animal carcasses and Toledo Scale.
Scales
July 30, 1929
A man reading a scale at the University of Wisconsin engineering building.
Chemistry Laboratory
April 12, 1928
A man is measuring chemicals on an old scale in Ricketts laboratory at the Agriculture Chemistry Building, on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Toledo Scale
April 15, 1929
Man weighing Mautz paint pails at Mautz Paint Company with a new Toledo scale.
Scale at Mautz Paint
April 15, 1929
Man weighing a container on an old scale at the Mautz Paint Company.
