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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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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.
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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.
Young Boy with Catcher's Mitt
1929
Young Robert Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Bailey, holding up a baseball catcher's mitt.
Picking Beans at a Chicago Vegetable Garden
1917
Three women and a man dumping the beans they've picked into wooden containers at a vegetable garden northwest of Chicago.
Deering Works Garden
1917
Two women and a young girl gathering vegetables in the Deering Works vegetable garden. Original caption reads: "This garden furnished a bountiful supply of vegetables throughout the season."
Young Boy Harvesting Beans
1920
A boy is holding a bushel basket while harvesting string beans in a field. A farmhouse and what appears to be a rabbit hutch or chicken coop are behind him near a building.
Children in Garden
1919
Two young girls holding up plants from a vegetable garden. Houses are in the background.
Woman Prepares Beans for Canning
1917
Woman sitting and preparing string beans for canning.
