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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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Auction at Bailey Farm
1883
Broadside advertising an auction at the L.P. Bailey farm near Delavan. Sale included cattle, horses and hogs.
Farmers at Farm Auction
1954
Group of farmers observe and participate in a farm auction.
Drying Rack
1917
A four-tiered drying rack used to dry fruits and vegetables hangs from the ceiling above a heater in what appears to be a basement or root cellar.
Livestock Auction
Elevated view of a livestock auction. Men and young boys stand around a cattle pen viewing a cow at a livestock auction. The men are dressed in hats and cold weather attire. A farmhouse is visible ...
Racking Seed Corn
1913
Two men stack seed corn in racks after removing it from bushels at an International Harvester demonstration farm.
Administrator's Public Auction
1882
Broadside advertising a public auction at the estate of Olaus Haagenson.
