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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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Children's Toy Exhibit
December 1948
Two girls looking at dolls on a table. Caption reads: "Exhibit of children's toys. About Christmas, 1948."
Smashing Illegal Slot Machines
1948
John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines.
Wisconsin Central Lockheed 10A
1948
A Wisconsin Central Airlines pilot walking toward a twin-engine Lockheed 10A airplane parked on the runway at Truax Field.
Truax Field Lunch Counter
The lunch counter at Truax Field, formerly Madison Municipal Airport. Two men are sitting at the counter, probably airport employees, and a waitress is pouring coffee.
Jimmy Demetral
1947
Local wrestler "Jimmy" Demetral poses flexing his muscles in front of a painting of himself.
