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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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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.
Making Buckwheat Pancakes
September 13, 1949
Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove.
Painting of a Cook
Amateur painting by Eleanor R. Craighill. Representing a woman in an apron and hat polishing(?) a pot in front of the kitchen fireplace in the Governor's Palace. In the background cooking utensils ...
Woman Broiling Hamburger
1950
An apron-clad woman broiling hamburgers in the kitchen.
Woman Drying Dishes
1916
A woman wearing an apron is standing near a wheeled butler's tray while drying dishes in a kitchen. A sink, table, chair and utensils are behind her.
Woman Washing Dishes
View of a woman wearing an apron sitting on a stool and washing dishes at a kitchen sink. Kitchen utensils are hanging on the wall above her.
Woman in Kitchen
1919
A woman wearing an apron standing near a wheeled butler's tray in a kitchen. A sink, table, and chair are standing against the wall, and various cooking utensils and dishes are on the table and on ...
