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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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Woman Washing Wooden Porch
April 23, 1926
A woman wearing a dress, hat, and stockings uses a mop and bucket to wash a damaged wooden porch attached to a farmhouse.
Woman Pumping Water from Farmhouse Well
Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse.
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.
Woman Sweeping
August 1931
Irma Evans using a broom to sweep the floor near a wooden bench.
Woman Throwing Out Wash Water
1925
Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse.
Woman Wringing Clothes with Early Washing Machine
October 1923
Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm.
