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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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Woman Using Washing Machine and Wringer
October 1923
Mrs. Waggoner using a Coffield electric washing machine and wringer to launder clothing on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester Farm). A laundry basket is sitting on the ...
Woman Washing Dishes
Woman washing dishes in a kitchen sink. Kitchen utensils are hanging on the wall and the cabinets are open, revealing cleaning supplies made by Lux, Bon Ami, and other manufacturers.
Woman Washing Clothing
1925
A woman wearing a dress and apron is using an "Easy Model H" wringer washing machine made by the Syracuse Washer Corporation.
Woman Washing Laundry in Tub
May 1923
Mrs. Eshe demonstrating the washing of laundry with a washboard, ringer and tub in front of a farm house. The original caption reads: "Washing with no improved equipment. Mrs. Eshe posing."
Woman Using Electric Washing Machine
June 1923
Mrs. J.E. Waggoner passing plaid fabric through a wringer after using an electric washing machine. A washboard is hanging on the wall in the background, and a laundry basket is on the floor.
Woman Wringing Clothes with Early Washing Machine
October 1923
Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm.
