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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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Thatched Home on Poles
1910
A thatched home raised up on poles. In her journal from her trip to Java, Carrie Chapman Catt describes how many homes were built in this manner in case of flooding.
Thatched Housing
1910
Log and thatched homes. In a number of her journals, Carrie describes the conditions of housing. Many countries at the time still utilized thatched houses like these, especially in more rural areas.
Workers Planting in Rice Field
1910
Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from her trip to China as "not something most wo...
Two Women Bowing in Kimonos
1910
Hand-colored lantern slide of two women bowing to each other on opposite sides of an entrance gate to a yard. In her diary from Japan and South Korea, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the bowing as "a...
Girls Gathering Grains
1910
Three girls standing in tall grass gathering a type of grain, with a thatched house and a hill in the background. The girls wear white blouses and skirts.
Group of People with Pottery
1910
Group of people sitting on the ground outside of a thatched house with pottery.
