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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.
White Leghorn Hen
January 22, 1935
Two views of white leghorn hen, Herb's Hatchery.
Avenue Food Shop
April 23, 1931
Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, 2427 University Avenue, with a woman weighing items on an old balance beam scale.
Chicken "Basket" Lunch
January 6, 1933
Fried chicken "basket" lunch (basket was a 2-pound loaf of bread hollowed out and toasted into which the chicken pieces are placed and then delivered) on a Felly's Restaurant napkin, 814 University...
Two-Headed Turtle
November 2, 1931
Two-headed snapping turtle, found near the Yahara River outside of Stoughton by Leo Halverson.
Avenue Food Shop
April 23, 1931
Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, located at 2427 University Avenue, with stacks of canned goods and a woman employee using a Toledo scale.
Grand Prize Brown Swiss Bull
August 26, 1931
Grand prize Brown Swiss bull at the Dane County fair.
