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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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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.
Horse-Drawn Hearse
circa 1920-1929
Black Earth hearse drawn by horses. Chris Schanel, the Black Earth undertaker, is driving.
Hearse and Undertaker
1922
Chris Schanel, undertaker, stands next to the back of his hearse. A home and trees are in the background.
Large Hog in Farmyard
circa 1920-1929
A large hog in a farmyard being admired by five men standing behind him.
Man with Two Horses
circa 1920-1929
A man wearing overalls and a hat holds the bridles of two large horses facing him in a farmyard. Farm buildings and wooded hills are in the background.
Horse-Drawn Hearses in a Funeral Procession
View from across unpaved street of four men with horse-drawn hearses lined up in front of an undertaking building. The other storefronts are a stable on the left, and a hardware store on the right.
Main Street
May 25, 1925
Main Street with storefronts, automobiles, and horses and carriages parked along it.
