Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
| View the collection of images of Wisconsin women in a variety of activities: farm work, canning, suffragism, photography, war work and civil rights. |
| Documenting a Sense of Place |
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| View more than 8,000 images of Wisconsin communities: main streets, the built environment, prominent points of interests and some rural scenes. |
| Increase Lapham's Cartes-de-visite Collection |
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| View this magnificent collection of 19th century famous scientists collected by Wisconsin naturalist Increase Lapham. |
| View images from film "Hell's Angels," released by United Artists in 1930. |
| Rabbit Raising in German Concentration Camps |
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| View this unusual photo album, the cover of which is made of angora rabbit wool, to see how the rabbits were raised in concentration camps. |
| An Inventive and Imaginative Photographer |
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| Learn about H.H. Bennett, the 19th-century photographer of Wisconsin Dells landscapes. |
| View an extensive image collection about this early social leadership center that focused on labor organization, and later, civil rights. |
| View these 19th-century panoramic, detailed maps of Wisconsin communities. |
| Read about Earth Day's founder, Gaylord Nelson, a Wisconsin senator and early environmentalist. |
| See images that document the stories of 18 Wisconsin survivors of the World War II Holocaust. |
| View Edmund Eisenscher's photographs of the personal and work life of Milwaukee union members from 1938-1956 |
| Photographs by Richard Quinney |
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| View photographs of the 1969 construction of the New York City World Trade Center. |
| Learn about the long life of the mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin Civil War Regiment, a bald eagle named 'Old Abe'. |
| View this image collection of the Wisconsin Democratic Senator William Proxmire. |
| See the designs Wisconsin artists produced for the Centennial Stamp Contest. |
| View these images shot by an early female war correspondent, Dickey Chapelle from Wisconsin. |
| Photographs and Poetic Texts |
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| Learn about the experimental style of one of the country's most respected scholars in the field of photography and archives. |
| Learn about the exploits of the U.S. Army National Guard's Red Arrow Division during World War II. |
| Photographer David Giffey Captures Details of Migrant Worker Life |
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| Learn about migrant worker life in Wisconsin and Texas captured by Wisconsin-born photojournalist David Giffey. |
| Lee una breva historia de Lucha por la Justicia para los Trabajadores Agrícolas. |
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