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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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Wild Rose Service Station
2008
Herman Hanson built this small rectangular brick station before the spring of 1928. Motorists would have known from the bright red tile roof that this little filling station proudly sold Wadhams ga...
Burlington Service Station
2008
Filling station built in 1927, at 148 West Chestnut Street, by Jack Hansen.
Mineral Point Service Station
2008
Manufactured by the Milwaukee Corrugating Company, Josiah Paynter's filling station at 110 South Chestnut Street was the first in Mineral Point.
Stoddard Service Station
2008
In 1933, Lester Proksch constructed this striking filling station in the small river town, at 201 North Main Street. Less's Service was opened in July of 1933.
Waupaca Service Station
2008
Gray Czeskleba ran a hardware store at 206 West Fulton Street in Waupaca before turning exclusively to gasoline and oil distribution in 1925.
Oshkosh Service Station
2008
In 1934, Cook and Brown Lime and Coal built a super-service station with Art Deco stylings at 420 Division Street, which was previously occupied by a smaller filling station that was built in the l...
