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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.
Water Softener Demonstration
September 29, 1931
C.E. Bates Plumbing Company salesman showing the Trupar water softener to a customer, 1425 Regent Street.
Welch Plumbing Co.
November 21, 1933
Display window E.R. Welch Plumbing Co., 1507 Monroe Street.
Manchester's Vacuum Cleaner Show Window
May 20, 1931
Manchester's window display with five Hoover vacuum cleaners.
Appliance Store Exterior
November 12, 1931
Appliance store exterior featuring Wayne oil burner window display. Signs on window read: "Good Housekeeping Shop," and signs above the windows read: "ABC Washers and Ironers," "Electric Refrigerat...
W.J. Hyland Plumbing Co. Display Windows
August 20, 1931
W.J. Hyland Plumbing Co., 115 E. Doty Street, display windows featuring water softeners and steam boiler.
Display Window at Royston Plumbing
April 11, 1932
Display window at R.T. Royston Plumbing and Heating, 1325 University Avenue. On display is a Buckeye refrigerator and Everwear washer.
