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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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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.
Shipping Cotton
Workers load bales of cotton onto a ship. The bales are being hoisted up ramps and onto the ship.
Loading Naval Stores
1910
View of a dock, as naval stores are being loaded on a ship. Workers are on board the ship and on the dock, surrounded by cargo. Caption reads: "Loading Naval Stores For Foreign Shipment, Brunswick."
Vegetable Vendor With Basket Balanced on Head
African American vegetable vendor with a large basket of vegetables balanced on her head.
Loading Sugar Cane
A view of men and women loading sugar cane onto the carrier conveying it into the sugar house. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane Onto Carrier Conveying It Into Sugar House. Morgan City, LA."
Dock Scene
Elevated view of a dock scene, where workers are preparing bales of cotton for loading. A steamship and a tugboat are nearby. More ships and the shoreline are in the distance.
S.S. "Nerissa"
View of the S.S. "Nerissa" ocean liner in the water near New York City. the ship features a large smokestack, two masts and several flags.
