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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.
Veteran Butcher
September 8, 1956
Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat.
Meat Market
1910
A customer waits while butchers stand behind the counter of a butcher shop, surrounded by meat hanging from the ceiling.
Rhinelander Butcher Shop
1911
Interior view of a butcher shop, with a male butcher sharpening a knife behind a counter lined with cuts of meat, sausages and a scale. Behind the counter on a wood cabinet is a sign reading "Oleom...
Boscobel Meat Market
1905
A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Hof stand at left weighing cuts of meat. The...
Man Dressing Butchered Pigs
Man in boots and a hard hat dresses butchered pigs on meat hooks.
