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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.
Sears Roebuck "Wizard" Washing Machine
1913
1913 Sears Roebuck catalog page of woman with "Wizard" washing machine.
Woman in Kitchen
circa 1900-1909
Composite photograph/painting of a woman standing and pouring (fake) water into a cracked basin, with the water spilling onto the floor.
Spring Cleaning
A woman dust mops the floor while listening to a radiophone that is perched on the window sill.
Dreams Come True
circa 1950-1959
Advertisement for International Harvester refrigerators and freezers. Depicts a woman wearing an apron over a dress standing near a freezer and refrigerator.
Making Buckwheat Pancakes
September 13, 1949
Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove.
