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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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Young Woman Sweeping Steps
February 1915
Young African American woman sweeping front steps of a residence. Original caption reads: "the 'sedge brush' broom is used a great deal for light sweeping out of doors and like the brush broom cost...
Sweeping the Yard
February 20, 1915
A woman and young boy sweep yard with "brush broom" while another woman with two children looks on. Two additional women, possibly Agricultural Extension employees watch as well. Original caption r...
Staircase Danger
July 1927
A girl holding a long coat or blanket, a broom, and a dustpan while descending a flight of stairs at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
Children and Adults Engaged in Yard Work
February 20, 1915
A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. Another woman with two children is standing...
Man Smoothing Cement on Silo Walls
1915
Man using broom head to smooth cement along the walls of pit silo. Another man is working in the foreground.
Woman Hauling Water
1920
A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house.
