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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.
Switchboard Operator
January 23, 1958
Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
Telephone Exchange Switchboard
August 14, 1946
Five men are rebuilding the "Fairchild" exchange switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. Four women telephone operators in the background are operating another exchange switchboard.
Damage to the Business District
June 12, 1899
View of debris, perhaps from tornado damage in the business district of New Richmond. A group of onlookers investigate the damage. Caption on stereograph reads, "9667-In the Heart of the Business S...
Telephone Switchboard and Operators
1920
Women work on nine-place telephone switchboard that served 1,145 single-line flat-rate telephones originating 10 calls per day, on average.
Switchboard Operators
Indoor portrait of an office space with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard. Above the switchboard is a clock. There is a window on the left, and a curtain on the right. Identified ...
New Police Telephone Switchboard
September 6, 1949
A Madison police officer at the new police telephone switchboard at the police station, 14 South Webster Street.
