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Microfilm Users
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Kenneth Duckett and Alan E. Kent, historians employed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, using the microfilm reader in the Society's old, first floor manuscript room. Bound document collections can be seen in the closed shelving behind them.
May 15, 1952
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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.
Construction in Library Periodical Room
January 1955
Construction work on the mezzanine shelving in the old Library Periodical Room. The old shelving was reconfigured, beams installed, and an small office created to house the Wisconsin Historical So...
Old State Historical Society Light Fixtures
1954
Pile of original first floor light fixtures photographed during the remodeling of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building during the summer.
Air Quality Monitoring
January 15, 1959
Robert Butler, a public health technologist with the city health department, is examining a used filter. He is atop the second floor of the City-County building standing by an apparatus similar to ...
Library Circulation Desk
May 15, 1952
Close-up of the Library Circulation Desk and librarians Esther DeBoos and Margaret Gleason (right) behind the desk at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
New Wiring for SHSW Library
February 8, 1955
Electrician feeding cable into the electrical box on the north second floor hallway of th Wisconsin Historical Society. Changes in the library delivery area and lettering on the library doors can b...
Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show
April 7, 1949
Dorothy Lorenzen looks at several small kitchen appliances while she holds one of the earliest electric toasters at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium.
