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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.
Precise Cuts
1950
A jigsaw in the hands of Harry Westphal makes smooth curves on the end of a piece of wood.
Tinsel Trees
1950
A woman fashions a miniature hand-made metallic tree, while tables full of others await packing and shipment for the Christmas holidays.
Practical Joke
1950
Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench.
Cutting the Cheese
1950
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture workers cut large blocks of Swiss cheese.
Metalworker
1950
The components of a necklace come together under the skilled hands of a jewelry maker.
