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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.
Attribution
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.
Man Sharpening Scythe
A man using a whetting stone to sharpen a scythe in a backyard.
Boys Cutting Lawn
Two boys attend to a lawn, one using a scythe to cut and the other raking the cut grass.
Family Scything in a Field
Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row.
Boy and Girl Sitting on Grass
Boy, girl, and dog sitting on the grass next to the board sidewalk in front of a house.
Young Man Taking a Drink in Woods
A young man crouches amidst leafy foliage to take a drink.
