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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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Cotton Compress
Two men hold carts of cotton bales in front of the warehouse of a cotton compress.
Bales of Cotton in Storage
Outdoor elevated view of a large storage area with thousands of bales of cotton. A few houses or other buildings can be seen in the background. Caption reads: "Cotton Scene, Columbus, Miss."
Cotton Compress
Men surrounded by large bales of cotton stand and wait near a cotton compress, also known as a bailing machine.
Counting Bales of Cotton
1905
Men standing around as a number of bales of cotton are being counted on the cotton compress. Caption reads: "Cotton Compress, Shawnee, Oklahoma."
Cotton Compress with Bales of Cotton
1915
Thousands of bales of cotton with a water tower and a building with smokestacks in the background. Caption reads: "Ada Compress, 10,000 Bales Cotton In Sight, Ada, Okla."
Cotton Gin
A warehouse and cotton gin. Caption reads: "Cotton Gin, Mission, Texas."
